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Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the exp… More >>
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American Society Since 1945
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CELLULOID MIRRORS is an exciting new survey of major developments in American filmmaking since 1945. Coverage includes changes in film content, alterations in the business structure of Hollywood, shifts in theater design, the impact of television, and Hollywood’s enduring mystique. This supplement is appropriate for a variety of courses, including American History Survey courses, Modern America History courses, American Cultural History, Film History, and Popular Cu… More >>
Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American Society Since 1945
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No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society
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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable “walkdown.” One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok… More >>
No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society
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