In My Power by Konstantin Dierks
In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.-
An Empire Divided
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Dispossessed Lives
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The Native Ground
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Laboring Women
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The Invention of Rum
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Speculation Nation
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Slavery's Capitalism
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The Driver's Story
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The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
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An Unsettled Conquest
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Wicked Flesh
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Christian Slavery
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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
- Immoral Debt
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Abraham in Arms
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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
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An Empire Divided CB
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Contested Currents
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Revolutions and Reconstructions
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Cast Down
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Before Disability
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An Age of Infidels
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Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis
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Poetry Wars
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Liberty's Prisoners
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Sacred Violence in Early America
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Many Identities, One Nation
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Lenape Country
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The Rising Generation
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Undoing Slavery
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The Disaffected
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Liquid Landscape
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Seasons of Misery
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Speaking with the Dead in Early America
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Let the Oppressed Go Free
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The Centrality of Slavery
"An admirably readable, wide-ranging, yet streamlined historical narrative that integrates letters into the American story and opens the way for others to do more nuanced work"-American Historical Review
"The ambition and perspective of In My Power command attention. Though the history of early America has been told and retold, it deserves this retelling."-Journal of American History
"In My Power is ambitious and full of brilliant observations on a subject that has not until now received comprehensive treatment."-Toby Ditz, Johns Hopkins University
Konstantin Dierks is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812221817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812221818 |
| Title | In My Power |
| Author | Konstantin Dierks |
| Series | Early American Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2011-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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