Thavolia Glymph

Broschiertes Buch

Out of the House of Bondage

The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Beschreibung

Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.

Autor

Thavolia Glymph (Ph.D. Economic History, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. She has co-edited two volumes of the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series and published scholarly articles in five book collections. Glymph's far-ranging experience as a scholar and educator extends to various teaching appointments and museum projects. Her current work focuses on a comparative study of plantation households in Brazil and the US South, Civil War soldiers in Egypt after the Civil War, and a history of women in the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780521703987
• ISBN-10: 0521703980
• Artikelnr.: 23413759