White Over Black - American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

Informationen zum Autor Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) taught history at the University of Mississippi. His books include Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy and White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States . Klappentext In 1968! Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks! perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery! and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition! with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood! reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it. Zusammenfassung The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience! skepticism! thoroughness! and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Winthrop D. Jordan
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780807871416
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-7141-6
• No. of pages: 671
• Series: Published for the Omohundro In; Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous