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The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. This anthology brings together for the first time a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the revolution.

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. This anthology brings together for the first time a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the revolution.

The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.

Charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. The book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. A white, educated Baptist woman, she initially saw herself as on a mission to the freedpeople of the Confederacy but over time developed a shared mission with her students and devoted herself to training the next generation of Black teachers.The geographical and chronological reach of her letters is uncommon for a woman in the Civil War era. In each place she worked, she taught in a different type of school and engaged with different types of students, so the subjects she explored in her letters illuminate a remarkably broad history of race and religion in America. Her experiences also offer an inside perspective of the founding of Shaw University, an important historically Black university. Now available to specialists and general readers alike for the first time, her correspondence offers an extensive view of the Civil War and Reconstruction era rarely captured in a single collection.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era

Beginning with an analysis of state responses to COVID-19, David Toscano goes on to detail how various states are attacking issues in different ways - from education and voting to criminal justice and climate change - and provides a broad overview of how state actions affect the American system of federalism.

Offers a critical new perspective on Philip Roth's work by exploring it in the era of autofiction, highly charged racial reckonings, and the #MeToo movement. The book poses provocative new questions about the author, and examines Roth's work in the context of race, revealing how it often trafficked in stereotypes.

Offers a twin biography of Thomas Jefferson in retirement and of the University of Virginia in its earliest years. Andrew O'Shaughnessy reveals how Jefferson's vision anticipated the modern university and profoundly influenced the development of American higher education.

Combines ancient wisdom from the Eastern world's great philosophers and lessons from modern-day business leaders to provide readers innovative approaches to unlock strategic breakthroughs for themselves and their organisations.

Challenging ideas of 'elite' and 'popular' culture, Tanya Kevorkian examines five central and southern German towns - Augsburg, Munich, Erfurt, Gotha, and Leipzig - to reconstruct a vibrant urban musical culture held in common by townspeople of all ranks.

Offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment.

While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia's earliest days, the land's oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 AD through the moment of colonial contact in 1607 and into the present.

The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild.

The Natal Midlands in South Africa was ravaged by conflict in the 1980s and 1990s between supporters of the United Democratic Front and Inkatha. Mxolisi Mchunu provides a historical study of the origins, causes, and nature of political violence in the rural community of KwaShange in the Vulindlela district.

Offers the first political memoir of Chuck Robb's extraordinary life, tracing his path from an anonymous Marine to his fairytale wedding, from night movements in Vietnam to engaging in the height of Democratic politics in the Virginia state capitol and US Senate, and becoming a principled fighter and exemplar of today's moderate Democrat.

This volume offers a revision of romantic poetry. The author argues that the form of disappointment examined by the romantic poet often finds him bewildered and oppressed, in a state beyond the simple failure of literary ambition or romantic love.

Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy and the future of liberalism and liberal societies. These essays bring communitarian thinking to bear on such contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech and personal autonomy.

A biography of feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, drawn from diaries, letters and two autobiographies. The book is divided into chapters reflecting her relationships with her parents, her closest female friends, two husbands, her neurologist and finally, her daughter.

Traces the rural origins and growth of capitalism in America, challenging earlier studies and aiming to chart a new course for future history and economics studies. Kulikoff argues that long before the explosive growth of cities and big factories, capitalism in the countryside changes society.

How reliable is the history produced by human memory? Does the self, creating for others, become other? Reviewing Augustine's "Confessions", Montaigne's "Essays", Rousseau's "Confessions" and Wordsworth's "Prelude", this study explores theories of memory, time, autobiographical design and disorder.