Description
Product ID: | 9781032330228 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Sociology Re-Wired |
Title: | Cresheim Farm |
Subtitle: | An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality |
Authors: | Author: Antje Ulrike Mattheus |
Page Count: | 282 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, History, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Ethnic studies, Ethnic studies, Indigenous peoples, Sociology, Anthropology, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Ethnic studies, Black & Asian studies, Indigenous peoples, Sociology, Anthropology, USA, Pennsylvania |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The book is a work of political archaeology: it focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania. This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change. Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but strategically placed piece of land—home to an extraordinary array of people, including early anti-slavery and anti-Nazi activists, the first woman editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a robber baron—can tell, affect and reflect the history of a nation. The writing is historically grounded and academic, future-oriented, deeply researched, and immediate. Cresheim Farm serves as a lens through which to observe and understand social forces, such as the launching point of freedom and democracy movements, white privilege, slavery, and genocidal westward expansion. The past lives on in all of us. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-30 |