Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier - Couverture rigide

Melton, James Van Horn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107063280 ISBN 13 : 9781107063280

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Van Horn Melton is Professor of History at Emory University, where he has served as Chair of both the Department of History and the Department of German Studies. His book The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001) has appeared in Turkish and Spanish translation, and his book Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 1988) won the 1990 Biennial Book Prize awarded by the Central European History Society. Melton has held fellowships from the NEH, the SSRC, the Fulbright Program, the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2012–13 he served as President of the Central European History Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107063280
• ISBN 13: 9781107063280
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie