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Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869–1924

Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to...

Author: Joy Parr
ISBN: 9781032368412
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants...  Read More >>

Lost Illusions: Caribbean Minorities in Britain and the Netherlands

Lost Illusions: Caribbean Minorities in Britain and...

Author: Malcolm Cross ,  Han Entzinger
ISBN: 9781032361277
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Lost Illusions, first published in 1988, analyses the differing experiences of Caribbean migration to Britain and...  Read More >>

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain: Forced Migration and Social Absorption

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain: Forced Migration and...

Author: William G. Kuepper ,  G. Lynne Lackey
ISBN: 9781032368375
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from...  Read More >>

Healing Multicultural America: Mexican Immigrants Rise to Power in Rural California

Healing Multicultural America: Mexican Immigrants Rise...

Author: Henry T. Trueba ,  Cirenio Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781032363479
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the...  Read More >>

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors...

Author: Laura Helton
ISBN: 9780231212748
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of the Black collectors who dedicated themselves to documenting...  Read More >>

Mutuality in El Barrio: Stories of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service

Mutuality in El Barrio: Stories of the Little Sisters...

Author: Carey Kasten ,  Brenna Moore
ISBN: 9781531506421
Format: Hardback
$186.99

"The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York's deeply-rooted...  Read More >>

Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family

Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American...

Author: Rachel Jamison Webster
ISBN: 9781250871800
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of colour,...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252087943
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729048
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17th century English Navigation Acts to the building of...  Read More >>

Some Connecticut Nutmeggers Who Migrated

Some Connecticut Nutmeggers Who Migrated

Author: Grace Knox
ISBN: 9781556131622
Format: Paperback
$92.40

If you have a broken branch on your family tree and suspect a...  Read More >>

The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore

The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance,...

Author: Lincoln Ballard ,  Matthew Bengtson
ISBN: 9781538198889
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Alexander Scriabin Compendium offers a modern perspective on the history, reception, interpretation, and performance...  Read More >>

Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire

Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire

Author: Maxwell Craven
ISBN: 9781398111424
Format: Paperback
$41.37

A fascinating description of the lost country houses of Derbyshire. This fascinating picture of an important but...  Read More >>

Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity

Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the...

Author: Christopher Tounsel
ISBN: 9781501775628
Format: Hardback
$113.39

"""Beginning with Anglo-Egyptian colonialism and ending with Barack Obama's presidency, Bounds of Blackness explores...  Read More >>

Upsydown: Cartoons of Dorset Life

Upsydown: Cartoons of Dorset Life

Author: Lyndon Wall
ISBN: 9781398118256
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Humorous cartoons of Dorset life by local artist and cartoonist Lyndon Wall. All those who know and love this corner...  Read More >>

Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature

Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature

Author: Carolyne Larrington
ISBN: 9781526176134
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Niall O’Flaherty ,  Robin Mills
ISBN: 9781526166777
Format: Hardback
$206.99

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Terror and Magnificence: The London Churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor

Terror and Magnificence: The London Churches of Nicholas...

Author: David Meara
ISBN: 9781398116283
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Former Archdeacon of London David Meara celebrates the beautiful churches designed by architect Nicholas Hawksmoor....  Read More >>

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir,...

Author: Graeme J. Milne
ISBN: 9780228021292
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how...  Read More >>

Re-membering the Reign of God: The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador's Church of the Poor

Re-membering the Reign of God: The Decolonial Witness...

Author: Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo ,  Laurel Marshall Potter
ISBN: 9781793618979
Format: Paperback
$113.49

Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that...  Read More >>

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart...

Author: Eric T. Kasper ,  Troy A. Kozma
ISBN: 9781501774515
Format: Hardback
$118.67

"""English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity...

Author: Sangmi Lee
ISBN: 9780252045769
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand,...  Read More >>

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race...

Author: Maria Angela Diaz
ISBN: 9780820366487
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage,...

Author: AnneMarie Mingo
ISBN: 9780252045653
Format: Hardback
$260.00

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit...  Read More >>

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