Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor: The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life 9783030972325

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization 9781643135397

An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and curre

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The Foundations of Western Civilization

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Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom [1 ed.] 9781613760482, 9781558497405

This book originated in the summer of 2006, in the burial ground of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, of East

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The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom 9780674053939

Pulitzer Prize–winner Hahn challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving

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Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization 9780062950512, 2020030733, 9780062950499

History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republican

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Western Civilization and the Academy 9781498517560, 9781498517553

This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy,

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Slavery and Freedom

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Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 1469624249, 9781469624242

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of America

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Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization

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Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life 9781349601172, 1349601179

Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that peopl

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