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[Association copy, inscribed by Pier M. Larson to noted historian Philip D. Morgan on front end page.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* Pier M. Larson was a historian of Africa with a specialty in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands, focusing on social, cultural, and intellectual history in the early modern period. His teaching and research revolved around in the history of East and southern Africa, Madagascar and the Francophone islands of the Western Indian Ocean, slavery, literacy, religion, and the history of the French empire. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).…