The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove

Informationen zum Autor Steven C. Hahn , associate professor of history at St. Olaf College, is the author of The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 . Klappentext The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Greek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one. Using Mary's life as a narrative thread, Steven Hahn explores the connected histories of the Creek Indians and the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. He demonstrates how the fluidity of race and gender relations on the southern frontier eventually succumbed to more rigid hierarchies that supported the region's emerging plantation system. Zusammenfassung A historical biography of Mary Musgrove.

Product details

• Authors: Steven C Hahn, Steven C. Hahn
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2012
• EAN: 9780813042213
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-4221-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies