The Enlightenment

Margaret Jacob

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• In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the politi... Lees meer

Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies

Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan

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• Columbus's four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the Americas in a conflicted economic and cultural symbiosis. Document he... Lees meer

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial of 1945-46

Michael R. Marrus

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• Reproducing significant sections of the trial record, this volume also outlines the background to the trial, traces the preparations made by the princ... Lees meer

The French Revolution and Human Rights

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• A rich collection of 38 primary documents covering the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. There is an extensive introductory ess... Lees meer

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War

Michael Johnson

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• Incorporating famous documents and crucial letters, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War walks you through the development where Lincoln stood ... Lees meer

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

David W. Blight

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• This new edition is the first prepared especially for American history courses. David W. Blight's extensive introduction and related materials place t... Lees meer

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804

Laurent Dubois, John D. Garrigus

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• The Haitian Revolution was the first successful slave rebellion, establishing Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation o... Lees meer

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989

Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer

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• Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 explores the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution, chronicling its legacy ... Lees meer

The Age of McCarthyism

Ellen Schrecker

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• The first is a compelling essay of about one-hundred pages in which the author discusses the origins and escalation of the anti-communist campaign in ... Lees meer

Candide

Voltaire

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• Preserving the text's provocative nature, this translation of "Candide" includes an introduction that places the work and its author in historical con... Lees meer

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

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• With a critical introduction addressing the wide range of issues raised by the text, this edition of The Jungle is coupled with illuminating documents... Lees meer