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Thorndike Press large print American history seriesRenton, Alex
Summary: When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 RENRothman, Joshua D.
Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINVivas, Esther
Summary: "¿Es posible ser mamá y feminista al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay alguna salida al dilema «carrera vs. familia»? Si hemos elegido se madres, ¿hasta que punto podemos decidir sobre nuestra maternidad? En Mamá desobediente, la periodista, socióloga y madre feminista, Esther Vivas aborda éstas y otras interrogantes cuando explora la maternidad con emancipación y sin imposiciones. Con un tono fresco pero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VIVWhite, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 WHIApplebaum, Anne
Summary: Discusses the creation of the Communist regimes that took hold in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and describes what daily life was like in these countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 APPLevine, Bruce C.
Summary: Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.713 LEVBuchanan, Patrick J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 WHYSummary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BAIBlom, Philipp
Summary: "An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of thesixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 BLOAudoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.344 AUDHaidt, Jonathan
Summary: After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.8 BAIHarrison, Da'Shaun
Summary: "An exploration of anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.38 HARJacobovici, Simcha
Summary: "From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost two million died at sea. Throughout this journey we meet the remarkable group, Diving With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 JACHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic argues that waves of Muslim immigration are transforming sexual politics in Europe in ways that threaten to undermine the hard-won rights of Western women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ALITrilling, Daniel
Summary: "... The founding story of the European Union is that it exists to ensure the horrors of the twentieth century are never repeated. Now, as it comes to terms with the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, its declared values of freedom, tolerance and respect for human rights are being put to the test. [This book] is a uniquely powerful and illuminating exploration of the nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018