Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal A
Explores how the history of US citizenship has positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century.
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal A
Explores how the history of US citizenship has positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century.
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the ......
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the ......
Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial
This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity.
Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption.
Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture. This book tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption and also combines through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, and novels.
The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
12 February 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the extraordinary and influential men in history - Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. This title examines the lives and careers of Lincoln (the political rebel) and Darwin (the scientific rebel), and notes.
No other general in American history has attracted the attention and adoration accorded to Robert Edward Lee, the peerless chieftain of the Confederacy. Indeed, in all of history, only Napoleon can vie with Lee for the hold he maintains on the imagination of students and admirers around the globe. Succeeding generations have invented and ......