History
The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
Volume: 1
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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
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Longtime observer of the American economy Wallace C. Peterson here offers a wake-up call.
Telling the Truth about History
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"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
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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).
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
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"[Fogel's] exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed [him] both to increase our knowledge of an institutions operation and disintegration and to renew our methods of research." —from the citation to Robert William Fogel for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences