Eugene D Genovese

The Political Economy of Slavery

Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• 2nd Wesleyan edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 141mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780819562081
• ISBN-10: 0819562084
• Artikelnr.: 21357144

Autorenporträt

EUGENE D. GENOVESE is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rochester. In 1987-88 he was on leave at the Humanities Research Center in Research Triangle park, North Carolina, and in 1988-89 he was visiting professor at William and Mary. GENOVESE is former president (1979) of the Organization of American Historians and winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1974 for Roll, Jordan, Roll. He has written, in addition to The Political Economy of Slavery and Roll, Jordan, Roll, The World the Slaveholders Made (Wesleyan 1988), In Red and Black, From Rebellion to Revolution, and, with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College (B.A. 1953) and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1959). He has been visiting professor at Columbia, Yale, and Tulane and Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. His home is in Atlanta, Georgia.