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  • 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).

  • Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

    Robert William Fogel

    Paperback

    "[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

  • Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700

    Carlo M. Cipolla

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.

  • Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941

    Michael E. Parrish

    Paperback

    "Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."—Publishers Weekly

  • Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People

    Ramón Eduardo Ruíz

    Paperback

    A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and development--from its Olmec, Aztec and Mayan heritage to its present-day incarnation as an independent, but struggling, modern country.