661円 First published in 1892, Ida B. Wells' scathing essay on the horrors of lynching and, more importantly, the upholding of these atrocities by law in the southern United States years after the Civil War had already been won, serves now as an important reminder of our not-too-distant past and its ef...

300円 The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and dri...

11,275円 Originally published in 1933, and written by "America’s historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War. Due emphasis is given to the inter-connectedness o...

562円 In 2019, of the 252 Republican members of Congress, only 3 were African American. Lincoln’s progressive Republicanism had been supplanted by the regressive 1950s Southern-styled Democratic Party ideology of white primacy. America’s initial morally flawed constitution permitted slavery to persist,...

150円 Six of the iconic hauntings from the South Carolina Lowcountry revisited. Returning the spirits to the eras when they lived to observe the conditions that lead to their eternal attachment to the world. Told from their point of view, researched to fill in the blanks. Rediscover these phantoms of t...

11,275円 Originally published in 1933, and written by "America’s historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War. Due emphasis is given to the inter-connectedness o...

661円 Splendid sequel to author's 1902 classic, How the Other Half Lives. Compelling real-life tales, accompanied by rare photographs and engravings, report on the status of living conditions among New York City's poor and exploited, including successful efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime an...

6,096円 At the Ocean’s Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia’s colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous socie...

10,280円 This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was...

933円 A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired ...

76円 In "Mob Rule in New Orleans", Ida B. Wells-Barnett explores the varying discrepancies in the press about Robert Charles’s lynching and the violence leading up to his death in 1900. Collecting her information from two New Orleans newspapers, Wells-Barnett recounts in graphic detail the events of t...

2,320円 美國影史經典《亂世佳人》，其實是種族主義的照妖鏡？ 「寄生上流」中的下流味，三重障礙的海倫凱勒說她「聞得到」。 知識分子比較反對越戰？真相和你想的不一樣！ 美國的「昭昭天命」，如何影響他們對於瘟疫的看法？ ★ 榮獲美國圖書獎 American Book Award ★ OCC傑出反種族歧視學術獎 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Di...