The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, governme

The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, governme

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was

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In The Inner Life of Race, Leerom Medovoi turns away from conventional views of race as a politics of the phenotypical body to theorize race instead as a politi