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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-22 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
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Language: en
Pages: 423
Pages: 423
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empir
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
"This book--the first to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during this period--focuses on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and shows how
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-16 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial