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The Hidden Russia, first published in 1960, is a detailed recounting of the author's ten-years as a political prisoner inside the prisons and slave labor camps of the former Soviet Union. From the mock-trials and cells of the infamous Lubyanka, to the freezing boxcars and inhuman conditions,...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Georgia Plantation -- 2. Down to the Sea -- 3. Love and the Sailor -- 4. Eastern Interlude -- 5. Healy's Polar Passion -- 6. Cannons, Expeditions, Shipwrecks, and...
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Ligon: 'sweete negotiation' -- CHAPTER 2 Rochefort: French collusions to negotiate -- CHAPTER 3 Grainger: creolizing the muse -- CHAPTER 4 Schaw: a 'saccharocracy' of virtue -- CHAPTER 5 Beckford: the aesthetics...
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Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on currencies -- Other books in the series -- Introduction -- Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor, and capital, 1721-1936 -- Part 1: Labor and labor relations -- A state of continual disquietude and hostility: maroonage...
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For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic...
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There is a growing understanding that modern slavery is a phenomenon "hidden in plain sight" in the home countries of multinational firms. Yet, business scholarship on modern slavery has so far focussed on product supply chains. To address this, we direct attention to the various institutional...
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