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Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
Peter Kolchin
This book compares the process and consequences of abolition in the two largest nineteenth-century emancipations: the United States South and Russia.
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The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History
Michael D. Hattem
The American Revolution has cast a long shadow over the nation's politics and culture. Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant.
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Chloe Wigston Smith
This book examines women’s material contributions to empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century, focusing on how handicrafts, in life and in fiction, incorporated images of the Atlantic world.
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The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
Alison L. LaCroix
Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. A foundational period of both constitutional crisis and creativity, these decades were the era of the Interbellum Constitution.
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