The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World (America in the World, 54) 0691256098, 9780691256092

The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World (America in the World, 54) 0691256098, 9780691256092

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipa

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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World 9781400874453

The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting,

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The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America [2]

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The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America [1]

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The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America [3]

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Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World 0190674806, 9780190674809

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Histori

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The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World 9780141992372

A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism continue to inform our m

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The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission and Emancipation of Slaves in Old World and New World Slavery 900415082X, 9789004150829

This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and

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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s 9781451698435, 2017026867, 9781439175668, 1439175667

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A page-turner masterpiece.” —Jim Lehrer In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dw

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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction 1666905712, 9781666905717

This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by

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