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  • 1
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    Book
    The new power elite (2023)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190637446 , 0190637447
    Language: English
    Pages: 313 Seiten , 24,2 c,m
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gautney, Heather New power elite
    DDC: 305.520973
    RVK:
    MS 1480
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    MS 4450
    RVK:
    MS 4675
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    NW 2708
    Keywords: Neoliberalismus ; Elite ; Macht ; USA ; Elite (Social sciences) / United States ; Power (Social sciences) / United States ; Social institutions / United States ; Neoliberalism / United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ; Elite (Social sciences) ; Neoliberalism ; Power (Social sciences) ; Social institutions ; United States ; USA ; Elite ; Macht ; Neoliberalismus
    Abstract: "A "remake" of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite, this book charts patterns of elite domination amid paradigmatic changes in the structuring of U.S. social institutions and political life since the postwar period that lay bare the essentially corrupt and authoritarian nature of neoliberal capitalism and the power elites behind it. Driven by an inexhaustible pursuit of profits and wealth accumulation, power elites of the last half century conceived of and imposed a new form of global capitalism that has positioned the "free market" as an ultimate political and cultural authority. In the process, they have suppressed policies and rules, social movements, and political organizations that might impede profitability and exacted an unspeakable toll on human and planetary life. Similar to Mills, The New Power Elite elucidates the means through which today's elites accumulate wealth and power, including the subordination of military and governmental systems, media and culture, and labor, finance, and production to "market imperatives." It departs from Mills, however, in accounting for major transformations in the political geography of corporations and labor, the rise of finance capital, and role of U.S. imperialism in the structuring of global capitalism. And, unlike Mills, the book argues that while the American State, mass media, and cultural institutions can still operate as a sites of contestation, political, military, and cultural institutions today should not be considered as autonomous from market forces, as their principal function is to serve the interests of capital and operate on its behalf"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The State (1973 -- 2000) -- The State (2000 -- 2017) -- The State (2017 -- 2022) -- The Military -- Wall Street -- Billionaires -- Celebrity -- Publics and Masses -- Conclusion
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  • 2
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    Book
    The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea (2023)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780197577356 , 9780197577349
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxiv, 230 Seiten
    Edition: Updated edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8960730905
    RVK:
    HD 474
    RVK:
    MS 3530
    RVK:
    MS 3450
    RVK:
    NQ 8346
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 2013-2021 ; Politik ; Schwarze. USA ; Black lives matter movement ; African Americans Social conditions 21st century ; African Americans Politics and government 21st century ; Equality ; Racism ; Black Lives Matter ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Schwarze ; Rassismus ; Entstehung ; Soziale Situation ; Protestbewegung ; USA ; United States Race relations ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Soziale Situation ; Rassismus ; Geschichte ; USA ; Schwarze ; Rassismus ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Protestbewegung ; Geschichte 2013-2021 ; Black Lives Matter ; Protestbewegung ; Entstehung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that 〈"Black Lives Matter〉" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity-and not just equal rights-of black people. The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Drawing on the work of revolutionary black public intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that 〈"Black Lives Matter〉" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem. As Lebron states, police body cameras, or even the exhortation for civil rights mean nothing in the absence of equality and dignity. To upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility. Radical sensibility requires that we become cognizant of the history of black thought and activism in order to make sense of the emotions, demands, and argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America. Quelle: Klappentext.
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  • 3
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    Reenacting the enemy : collective memory construction in Russian and US media (2022)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780197605493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages) , Illustrations (black and white, and colour).
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    DDC: 302
    RVK:
    NB 3400
    RVK:
    MS 4350
    Keywords: Feindbild ; Massenmedien ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Ideologie ; Collective memory ; Collective memory ; USA ; Russland ; Russia (Federation) Foreign relations ; Press coverage
    Abstract: This text examines the ways individuals in the US and Russia consume and construct collective memories of political events via a reestablished Cold War-like narrative in both media systems. The book contextualizes the rebirth of this phenomenon via seven political events involving Russia, examining the contemporary role of conscious media distrust in subconscious psychological processes.
    Note: Also issued in print: 2022 , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197605462.001.0001
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605462.001.0001
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  • 4
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    How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190900922
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 240 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Richardson, Heather Cox How the South won the Civil War
    DDC: 306.20973
    RVK:
    NP 6023
    Keywords: Electronic books ; USA ; Sezessionskrieg
    Abstract: A provocative and propulsive look at American history, and the myth that the Civil War's "new birth of freedom" ended oligarchy. It just moved westward.
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6122310
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  • 5
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    Little cold warriors : American childhood in the 1950s (2018)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190675714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.66083
    RVK:
    NW 8150
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    NW 2708
    RVK:
    NQ 8342
    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-1959 ; Children and war / United States / History / 20th century ; Children in popular culture / United States / History / 20th century ; Children and politics / History / 20th century ; Propaganda, American / History / 20th century ; Cold War / Social aspects / United States ; Cold War / Influence ; Nineteen fifties ; Erwachsenwerden ; Politische Bildung ; Kind ; United States / Foreign relations / Social aspects ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Kind ; Erwachsenwerden ; Politische Bildung ; Geschichte 1950-1959
    Abstract: Nostalgic narratives of the 1950s obscure a history of postwar childhood that has more in common with the war years and the sixties, when children were mobilized to fight the Cold War both at home and abroad. 'Little Cold Warriors' illustrates the many ways children and ideas about childhood served the demands of the Cold War
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190675684.001.0001
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  • 6
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    Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy (2017)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190619244
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 302 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hirota, Hidetaka Expelling the poor
    DDC: 325.7309034
    RVK:
    NP 6020
    RVK:
    LB 56610
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1830-1860 ; Deportation Government policy 19th century ; History ; Irish Government policy 19th century ; History ; Poor Government policy 19th century ; History ; Immigrants Government policy 19th century ; History ; Prejudices Political aspects 19th century ; History ; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century ; Politik ; Armut ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Gesetzgebung ; Einwanderer ; Ausweisung ; United States Emigration and immigration 19th century ; Government policy ; History ; Atlantic States Emigration and immigration 19th century ; Government policy ; History ; United States Ethnic relations 19th century ; History ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Irland ; USA ; Einwanderer ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Ausweisung ; Armut ; Politik ; Geschichte 1830-1860 ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Gesetzgebung ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190619213.001.0001
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  • 7
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    The Oxford handbook of Asian American history (2016)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199860463
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 524 Seiten , 26 cm
    DDC: 973/.0495
    RVK:
    NW 2708
    RVK:
    LB 48610
    RVK:
    HD 474
    RVK:
    NK 4600
    Keywords: Asian Americans History ; Asian Americans ; USA ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Asiatischer Einwanderer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Introduction / David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma -- Part I. Migration flows -- Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and the American empire / Keith L. Camacho -- Towards a hemispheric Asian American history / Jason Oliver Chang -- South Asian America: histories, cultures, politics / Sunaina Maira -- Asians, native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i: people, place, culture / John P. Rosa -- Southeast Asian Americans / Chia Youyee Vang -- East Asian immigrants / K. Scott Wong -- Asian Canadian history / Henry Yu -- Part II. Time passages -- Internment and World War II history / Eiichiro Azuma -- Reconsidering Asian exclusion in the United States / Kornel S. Chang -- The Cold War / Madeline Y. Hsu -- The Asian American movement / Daryl Joji Maeda -- Part III. Variations on themes -- A history of Asian international adoption in the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Confronting the racial state of violence: how Asian American history can reorient the study of race / Moon-Ho Jung -- Theory and history / Lon Kurashige -- Empire and war in Asian American history / Simeon Man -- Queer Asian American historiography / Amy Sueyoshi -- The study of Asian American families / Xiaojian Zhao -- Part IV. Engaging historical fields -- Asian American economic and labor history / Sucheng Chan -- Asian Americans, politics, and history / Gordon H. Chang -- Asian American intellectual history / Augusto Espiritu -- Asian American religious history / Helen Jin Kim, Timothy Tseng, and David K. Yoo -- Race, space, and place in Asian American urban history / Scott Kurashige -- From Asia to the United States, around the world, and back again: new directions in Asian American immigration history / Erika Lee -- Public history and Asian Americans / Franklin Odo -- Asian American legal history / Greg Robinson -- Asian American education history / Eileen H. Tamura -- Not adding and stirring: women's, gender, and sexuality history and the transformation of Asian America / Adrienne Ann Winans and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / David K. Yoo and Eiichiro AzumaPart I. Migration flows -- Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and the American empire / Keith L. Camacho -- Towards a hemispheric Asian American history / Jason Oliver Chang -- South Asian America: histories, cultures, politics / Sunaina Maira -- Asians, native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i: people, place, culture / John P. Rosa -- Southeast Asian Americans / Chia Youyee Vang -- East Asian immigrants / K. Scott Wong -- Asian Canadian history / Henry Yu -- Part II. Time passages -- Internment and World War II history / Eiichiro Azuma -- Reconsidering Asian exclusion in the United States / Kornel S. Chang -- Cold War / Madeline Y. Hsu -- Asian American movement / Daryl Joji Maeda -- Part III. Variations on themes -- A history of Asian international adoption in the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Confronting the racial state of violence: how Asian American history can reorient the study of race / Moon-Ho Jung -- Theory and history / Lon Kurashige -- Empire and war in Asian American history / Simeon Man -- Queer Asian American historiography / Amy Sueyoshi -- The study of Asian American families / Xiaojian Zhao -- Part IV. Engaging historical fields -- Asian American economic and labor history / Sucheng Chan -- Asian Americans, politics, and history / Gordon H. Chang -- Asian American intellectual history / Augusto Espiritu -- Asian American religious history / Helen Jin Kim, Timothy Tseng, and David K. Yoo -- Race, space, and place in Asian American urban history / Scott Kurashige -- From Asia to the United States, around the world, and back again: new directions in Asian American immigration history / Erika Lee -- Public history and Asian Americans / Franklin Odo -- Asian American legal history / Greg Robinson -- Asian American education history / Eileen H. Tamura -- Not adding and stirring: women's, gender, and sexuality history and the transformation of Asian America / Adrienne Ann Winans and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu.
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    Founding sins : how a group of antislavery radicals fought to put Christ into the constitution (2016)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190269241
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 214 Seiten , 25 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moore, Joseph S., 1977 - Founding sins
    DDC: 322/.10973
    RVK:
    LB 46610
    RVK:
    NO 2270
    Keywords: Religious right History ; Church and state History ; Covenanters ; USA ; Covenant ; Geschichte 1680 - 1920 ; USA ; Covenant ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Description / Table of Contents: Presbyterian empireThe failure to found a Christian nation -- Confronting the godless government -- Slavery and the sin of secular America -- Rejecting a Christian nation -- Afterward: Holy Scotland in the contemporary Christian America debate.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 9
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    The Oxford handbook of American immigration and ethnicity (2016)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199766031 , 0199766037
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 546 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    DDC: 304.873
    RVK:
    NK 2850
    RVK:
    HD 370
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Nationale Minderheit ; Politische Identität ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 10
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    The Oxford handbook of American immigration and ethnicity (2016)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199983155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.8/73
    RVK:
    MS 3530
    RVK:
    MS 1235
    RVK:
    MS 1560
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    NK 2850
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Nationalismus ; Immigrants History ; Ethnicity History ; Nationalism History ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Migration ; Politische Identität ; Ethnizität ; Nationale Minderheit ; Einwanderung ; USA ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States Ethnic relations ; History ; United States Race relations ; History ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Nationale Minderheit ; Politische Identität ; USA ; Migration ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: "What is the state of the field of immigration and ethnic history; what have scholars learned about previous immigration waves; and where is the field heading? These are the main questions as historians, linguists, sociologists, and political scientists in this book look at past and contemporary immigration and ethnicity"...Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766031.001.0001
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  • 11
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    Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America (2015)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190211608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Surdam, David G. Century of the leisured masses
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.481209730904
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    Keywords: Leisure United States ; History, 20th century ; Leisure class History, 20th century ; Leisure industry United States ; History, 20th century ; Leisure industry History 20th century ; Leisure class History 20th century ; Leisure History 20th century ; Leisure ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Leisure class ; History ; 20th century ; Leisure industry ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Economic conditions ; 20th century ; United States ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; United States Economic conditions 20th century ; United States Social conditions 20th century ; USA ; Freizeitverhalten ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: At the end of the 19th century, economist Thorstein Veblen wrote 'The Theory of the Leisure Class.' A century later, the economic conditions in America had changed beyond recognition. Improvements in agricultural productivity led to better nutrition and triggered improved productivity and living standards throughout the economy. American workers chose to take the benefits accruing from economic growth in the form of higher wages, shorter workweeks, better working conditions and increased leisure. This text charts the rise of leisure activities during this period.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190211561.001.0001
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190211561.001.0001
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    Education matters : global schooling gains from the 19th to the 21st Century (2015)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199379262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 289 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    Series Statement: Economics and Finance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barro, Robert J., 1944 - Education matters
    DDC: 306.43
    RVK:
    NU 8100
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    Keywords: 1870-2040 ; Bildungsabschluss ; Schulbesuch ; Bildungsniveau ; Bildung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Fertilität ; Demokratie ; Welt ; USA ; China ; Südkorea ; School environment Longitudinal studies ; Educational attainment Longitudinal studies ; Economic development Effect of education on ; Bildung ; Entwicklung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Geschichte 1870-2010
    Abstract: Recently human capital has emerged as one of the most active areas of research in economics. This research depends fundamentally on good data, and efforts at constructing useful measures of educational attainment for a broad panel of countries go back 20 years. In this book the extend the earlier work is extended by presenting and discussing a new long-term data set on educational attainment of the population for 146 countries from 1870 to 2010. In addition, new data is given on educational quality based on internationally comparable test scores for 134 countries from 1965 to 2010.
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379231.001.0001
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    American slavery : a very short introduction (2014)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199922680
    Language: English
    Pages: 140 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 18 cm
    Series Statement: Very short introductions 396
    Series Statement: Very short introductions
    DDC: 306.3620973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Slavery History ; Sklaverei ; USA ; Einführung ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship, it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination. Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population. The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following the Civil War"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126) and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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