This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the C
With the addition of a successful cotton mill in 1846, Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville - the site of his operations - one
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cott
"Conquest of the Sierra "depicts the colonial experience in the Sierra Zapoteca, a remote mountain region of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Based on unpublished an
This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between precious metals like gold and silver as sources of economic wealth and the rise of emp