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Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

Eugene D. Genovese

In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation.
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Damian Alan Pargas

26 Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1; Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg argued in a recent study that  ...
"No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth ...

"No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth ...

Marcia M. Gallo

Genovese’s life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime. Fifty years later, the story of Kitty Genovese continues to circulate in popular culture.
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that ...

Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that ...

Kevin Cook

But as award-winning author Kevin Cook reveals, the Genovese story is just that, a story. The truth is far more compelling—and so is the victim. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese.
Minding the South

Minding the South

John Shelton Reed

The chapters in this book cover everything from great thinkers about the South—Eugene D. Genovese, C. Vann Woodward, M. E. Bradford—to the uniqueness of a region that was once a hotbed of racism, but has recently attracted hundreds of ...
Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World

Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World

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Elizabeth Fox-Ge: iovese and Eugene Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Prop 'erty in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 15 83), chapter 1; Allan Kulikoff, “The Transition to  ...
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York ...
Women in Jamaica: Patterns of Reproduction and Family

Women in Jamaica: Patterns of Reproduction and Family

George W. Roberts

Edwin Angel Wallbridge, 1848, The Demerara Martyr: Memoirs of the Rev. John Smith (British Guiana: The "Daily Chronicle" Ltd., 1943). 19. M. J. and F. S. Herskovits, Trinidad Village, p. 176. 20. Eugene D. Genovese, Roll Jordan RoU- The ...
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the ...

The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the ...

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Delma Eugene Presley (Atlanta, GA, 1976), 201; Laura Jervey Hopkins, History of St. John's Episcopal Church, 1858*1950: Congaree, South Carolina (n.p., n.d.) , 12; Otey Diary, Aug. 29, 1854; Francis M. Manning and W. H. Booker, Religion ...
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of ...

A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of ...

Eugene D. Genovese

... eds., "Far, Far from Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers (New York, 1994), 213, 233; Rhoda Coleman Ellison, Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918 (University, Ala., ...
Proceedings

Proceedings

Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. Convention

Mike Wittmayer 4 Eugene North Eugene 97404 Prin. Bob Anderson 4 Sheldon 97401 Prin. Elton N. Sorenson 4 South Eugene 97401 Prin. Donald M. Jackson 4 Winston Churchill 97405 Prin. Charles A. Stolsig 4 Eugene (Others) Crow 97402  ...
The Presidential Vote 1896-1932

The Presidential Vote 1896-1932

Edgar Eugene Robinson

Edgar Eugene Robinson. The VOTE EDGAR EUGENE ROBINSON V $6,00 The ftteáidentíal VOTE By EDGAR EUGENE ROBINSON An analysis. Front Cover.
葵曄集: 大漢歌聲: 中國三千年詩選

葵曄集: 大漢歌聲: 中國三千年詩選

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1151) Tune: "Pure Serene Music" (tr. eugene eoyang) 366 Tune: "Spring at Wu- ling" (tr. eugene eoyang) 366 Tune: "A Southern Song" (tr. eugene eoyang) 366 Tune: "Tipsy in the Flower's Shade" (tr. eugene eoyang) 367 Tune: "Manifold Little ...
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Mythologies

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Mythologies

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

"This catalogue is published on the occasion of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Mythologies + Michelle Grabner + Lisa Stone + Brett Littman, presented June 25 to December 31, 2017, as part of THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, a series of fifteen ...
The Hasinais, Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest ...

The Hasinais, Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest ...

Herbert Eugene Bolton

Herbert Eugene Bolton Russell M. Magnaghi. Renowned as the founder of Spanish borderlands studies, Herbert Eugene Bolton was the first U.S. historian to build his research on Spanish archives and other forgotten archives in California, ...
The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore

The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore

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THE RED-KEGGERS, By EUGENE THWING “As full of nature as the forests themselves.'Lam/null” Amer/mu. THE RED-KEGGERS, Hy EUGENE THWING “ Strong, virile, WhOlCSOme."—Pillsburg 0mm. THE RED-KEGGERS, By EUGENE  ...
Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives

Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives

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Ibid., 156. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill: Son and Playwright (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), 210. 11. Virginia Floyd, Eugene O'Neill at Work: Newly Released Ideas for Plays (New York: Ungar, 1981),9. 12. Eugene O'Neill, The Straw, ...
Eugene O'Neill & His Visionary Quest

Eugene O'Neill & His Visionary Quest

R. R. Khare

Study of the plays of Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright.
Eugene Onegin (illustrated):

Eugene Onegin (illustrated):

Aleksandr Pushkin

Eugene Onegin is a bored Saint Petersburg dandy inherits a landed estate from his uncle.
Fluidity and Plasticty: By Eugene C. Bingham

Fluidity and Plasticty: By Eugene C. Bingham

Eugene Cook Bingham

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Offers a collection of interviews with the noted American playwright, reprinted from newspapers and magazines and originally published between 1920 and 1948
The Valachi Papers

The Valachi Papers

Peter Maas

The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts.
Millennial Child

Millennial Child

Eugene Schwartz

Eugene Schwartz. the family circle, so stories directed toward a grade-school audience should always contain elements of this new struggle between the etheric and the astral, between hereditary and individualizing forces. With this in mind, ...
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom . LAURIN PORTER. Long. Day's. Journey. into. Night: Descent. into. Darkness. G. eorge Cram Cook, a close friend of O'Neill, once remarked upon the ...
Runner's World

Runner's World

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Peter Thompson and Geoff Hollister are the race directors, and the 1980 starting time will be 7:30 a.m. for wheelchairs and 8 a.m. for runners. For Information and entries, contact: Nike Eugene, 99 West 10th Street, Suite 104, Eugene, Ore.
Catalog

Catalog

Emory and Henry College

Univ. of Virginia Eugene Ezra Neff. . . . . . Student... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlottesville, Va. Eugene R. Naylor. . . . . . Minister... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oregon Joe Kent Roberts. . . . . . Student... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltimore Samuel V. Snodgrass...Teacher.
Eugene Garfield 1925-2017: Informatician Nonpareil

Eugene Garfield 1925-2017: Informatician Nonpareil

Antonella De Robbio

His life and work will surely inspire generations of scientists in advancing the frontiers of human knowledge. This is Informatics Studies 4(2), which is Eugene Garfield Memorial Issue.
Coat of Many Colors: Reflections on Diversity by a Minority ...

Coat of Many Colors: Reflections on Diversity by a Minority ...

Eugene Eoyang

In this lively and unconventional critique, Eugene Eoyang argues for a new understanding of what is 'foreign' in America--with implications for racial categories, the status of the English language, the treatment of immigrants, and the ...
Back in the USSA: A Novel

Back in the USSA: A Novel

Eugene Byrne

This is the United Socialist States of America. When Eugene Debs led the Revolution, few expected it to lead to the iron-fisted regime of Chairman Al "Scarface" Capone, a dictatorship that would last into the 1950s.

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