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Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

By: Michael E. Groth

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Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

By: Michael E. Groth

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New Yorks Mid-Hudson Valley. Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the central Hudson Valley prior to the Civil War. Slaves were central actors in the drama that unfolded in the region during the Revolution, and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom during the decades that followed. Slavery in the countryside was more oppressive than slavery in urban environments, and the agonizingly slow pace of abolition, constraints of rural poverty, and persistent racial hostility in the rural communities also presented formidable challenges to free black life in the central Hudson Valley. Michael E. Groth explores how Dutchess Countys black residents overcame such obstacles to establish independent community institutions, engage in political activism, and fashion a vibrant racial consciousness in antebellum New York. By drawing attention to the African American experience in the rural Mid-Hudson Valley, this book provides new perspectives on slavery and emancipation in New York, black community formation, and the nature of black identity in the Early Republic. Groth provides a systematic overview focused on the history of African Americans in the Mid-Hudson Valley during the decades before the American Revolution through emancipation and during the national political struggle for abolition and the regional struggle for civil rights. Andor Skotnes, author of A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggle in Depression-Era Baltimore

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1438464576

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A World History of the Seas

From Harbour to Horizon

By: Michael North

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A World History of the Seas

From Harbour to Horizon

By: Michael North

Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350145459

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9781350145450

The Baltic

A History

By: Michael North

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The Baltic

A History

By: Michael North

In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world’s major waterways. The Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism. He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their ambitions on the region’s doorstep. With its vigorous trade in furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been—and remains—one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674744101

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9780674744103

Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

Structural Botany Physiology Genetics Taxonomy Geobotany / Struktur Physiologie Genetik Systematik Geobotanik

By: H.-Dietmar Behnke,Ulrich Lüttge,Karl Esser,Joachim W. Kadereit,Michael Runge

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Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

Structural Botany Physiology Genetics Taxonomy Geobotany / Struktur Physiologie Genetik Systematik Geobotanik

By: H.-Dietmar Behnke,Ulrich Lüttge,Karl Esser,Joachim W. Kadereit,Michael Runge

With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of botany. The present volume includes reviews on plant physiology, genetics, taxonomy and geobotany.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642798446

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Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology

By: Frederick J. Francis,Christine M. Bruhn,Pavinee Chinachoti,Fergus M. Clydesdale,Michael P. Doyle,Kristen McNutt,William D. Powrie,Carl K. Winter

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Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology

By: Frederick J. Francis,Christine M. Bruhn,Pavinee Chinachoti,Fergus M. Clydesdale,Michael P. Doyle,Kristen McNutt,William D. Powrie,Carl K. Winter

Annotation Now in a thoroughly-updated and expanded second edition, Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology covers fundamental concepts and practical requirements in food science, as well as cutting-edge technological and industry information. The encyclopedia features A-to-Z coverage of all aspects of food science, including: the properties, analysis, and processing of foods; genetic engineering of new food products; and nutrition. In addition, nontechnical information is included, such as descriptions of selected scientific institutions, and research and development in government agencies. Like the first edition, this Second Edition will become the standard reference for food scientists, bioengineers, and biotechnologists. From reviews of the first edition: " ... fills a definite need in the food science and technology literature ... I have little doubt that this encyclopedia will become one of the classic works in this ever-growing subject."--Food and Chemistry

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Wiley-Interscience

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0471192562

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Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

By: Michael E. Groth

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Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

A World History of the Seas

A World History of the Seas

The Baltic

The Baltic

Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology

Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

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