Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom is an important confrontation with America's and the world's past and present.

Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.

A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of ...

"Examines a number of major blockades, including the continental system in the Napoleonic Wars, the war of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the ...

These essays, by thirteen scholars from the United States, England, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, explore the relationship between Great Britain and her plantation slave colonies in the Caribbean.

Many scholars are concerned with why the U.S. and Canada have been so much more successful over time than other New World economies.