Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions 022675748X, 9780226757483

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Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised the

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Combines Marxist and postmodern approaches to argue that patriarchy has provided the central organizing principle of Nic

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How abolitionist businesses marshaled intense moral outrage over slavery to shape a new ethics of international commerce

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The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early y

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Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divi

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Not Made by Slaves describes the efforts of early-nineteenth-century businesses to end plantation slavery by promoting c

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In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transf

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The authors offer a broadly based picture of Mexico as it experienced the profound political, economic, and social chang

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An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popul

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