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By 1877 the US imported half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 to 1867, when slave traffic to Cuba ceased.
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A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella's comprehensive cultural history spans from the street's inception during... Læs mere
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Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in... Læs mere
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Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker - defined by the peppery dust from the woodworker planing a walnut board, turning an oak spindle at the lathe, or honing... Læs mere
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In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and... Læs mere
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Explores how leaders at five of the American south's most prestigious private universities - Duke, Emory, Rice,... Læs mere
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One of the least publicly recognised heroes of the civil rights, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit... Læs mere
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The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. In this welcome book, Meredith... Læs mere
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Tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's... Læs mere
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The poems in Jay Rogoff's Venera explore varieties of love, both sacred and profane, by drawing from the natural world, personal intimacy, and the human imagination as evoked in biblical narratives and art.
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First published in 1982, James R. McGovern's Anatomy of a Lynching unflinchingly reconstructs the grim events surrounding the death of Claude Neal, one... Læs mere
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With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of history, legal scholarship, political science, and communications, this revised and updated edition of Freeing the Presses offers an in-depth inquiry into the theory and practice of journalistic freedom.