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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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Greg Grandin,Greg Grandin |
Groundbreaking analysis and gripping storytelling from one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians.
'The Empire of Necessity is scholarship at its best. Greg Grandin's deft penetrat… |
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Population, providence and empire
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Sarah Roddy |
The book knits together two of the most significant themes in the social and cultural history of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - and aims to provide fresh insight into both. I… |
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Reparations for slavery and the slave trade
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Ana Lucia Araujo |
"Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to … |
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The Spectral Arctic
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Shane McCorristine |
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voy… |
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Mediterranean quarantines, 1750?1914
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Francisco Javier Martinez |
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the M… |
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The Politics of Housing in Colonial Africa
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Martina Barker-Ciganikova |
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice.… |
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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
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Lesley Gilbert |
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can rela… |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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J. K. Rowling |
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
They are swiftly confiscated by his aunt and … |
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