This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.
Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and...
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's -breathtakingly original- (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. -Capatious and] buzzing with ideas.- --The Boston Globe Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner
In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's -breathtakingly original- (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. -Ca...
