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

The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists

"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 Based on unpublished an

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

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