The advent of the Enlightenment ignited many changes in the philosophical landscape of both the young American republic and its European counterparts.

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Exploring a wide range of settings and circumstances in which individuals or groups of people have been forced to move from one geographical location to another

A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and

An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. T