wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South
ISBN: 9780813034461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A comprehensive and challenging assessment of southern charitable practices. Viewing poor relief in terms of what the agencies did, Lockley downplays theory-laden approaches that focus exclusively on what laws and elites said."--T. Stephen Whitman, Mt. St. Mary's University Public welfare in the United States has existed in one form or another since the colonial period. Most historical investigations into the practice tend to focus on urban settings, mostly in the North. Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South offers a much-needed counterpoint, revealing both the breadth... "A comprehensive and challenging assessment of southern charitable practices. Viewing poor relief in terms of what the agencies did, Lockley downpl... |
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180,20 zł |
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Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record
ISBN: 9781570037771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of their former enslavement. In this first survey of documentary records of marronage in colonial and antebellum South Carolina, Timothy James Lockley offers students and scholars of history an opportunity to assess the unique features and trends of the maroon experience in the Palmetto State.
Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomeno...
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cena:
132,33 zł |
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Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860
ISBN: 9780820325972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Lines in the Sand" is Timothy Lockley s nuanced look at the interaction between nonslaveholding whites and African Americans in lowcountry Georgia from the introduction of slavery in the state to the beginning of the Civil War. The study focuses on poor whites living in a society where they were dominated politically and economically by a planter elite and outnumbered by slaves. Lockley argues that the division between nonslaveholding whites and African Americans was not fixed or insurmountable. Pulling evidence from travel accounts, slave narratives, newspapers, and court documents, he... "Lines in the Sand" is Timothy Lockley s nuanced look at the interaction between nonslaveholding whites and African Americans in lowcountry Georgia... |
cena:
144,32 zł |