Plunder of Black America
How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
ISBN: HB: 9780300258950,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations.
Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of we...
HB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
Great Plague
When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665
ISBN: PB: 9780300270259,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord...
PB:
10.99 GBP
QTY:
Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300256390,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
608 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
608 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...
PB:
17.99 GBP
QTY: