W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Autor de The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
Sobre El Autor
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on torture in American history and has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.
Obras de W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (2011) 20 copias
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (1996) 10 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Brundage, William Fitzhugh
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-01-05
- Género
- male
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 332
- Popularidad
- #71,553
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 30
One advantage of having multiple historians each writing an essay on a specific time and perspective is the expertise each can bring to their specialization. While the writing styles are, as expected, varied they still manage to contribute to a nice overall history. This also allows a reader to read from cover to cover to gain a long view or to select specific essays that speak to their areas of interest. For the purpose of this review, I read straight through. While I am glad I did, I am probably one of those people who would have read select essays at first then gone back at some point to read the rest. And I think either approach would work well.
While this is an academic work, it is also quite accessible for any reader with an interest in southern history. Because of the chapters being self-contained essays, picking and choosing ones to read doesn't leave a reader wondering if they might have missed something in a previous chapter, as is often the case when picking a chapter out of a single author history.
This will certainly be of interest to historians who teach or research in the area. I also think this will be an excellent book for the informal history buffs who like to keep abreast of contemporary perspectives. I now fall more into the second category, and I anticipate revisiting a few of the essays in the future.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (más)