Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern me...

2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Sou...

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...

Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

Antebellum slave narratives have taken pride of place in the American literary canon. Once ignored, disparaged, or simply forgotten, the autobiogra...

Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The ...

Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-ch...

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within...

Este libro ofrece un estudio comprensivo de las opiniones que Bartolomé de Las Casa expresa sobre la esclavitud africana en las Indias. Yendo más a...

2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Sou...

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attent...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...

This is a story about a dangerous ideathat all men are created equalwhich ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in ...

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for re...

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield un...