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  • Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

    Charles B. Dew

    Paperback

    A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.

  • The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism

    Peter Gay

    Volume: 1

    Paperback

    The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.

  • Silent Depression: Twenty-Five Years of Wage Squeeze and Middle Class Decline

    Wallace C. Peterson

    Paperback

    Longtime observer of the American economy Wallace C. Peterson here offers a wake-up call.

  • Telling the Truth about History

    Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob

    Paperback

    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist

  • Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery

    Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman

    Paperback

    First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).