| Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier Contributor(s): Melton, James Van Horn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107063280 ISBN-13: 9781107063280 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $115.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 975.872 |
| LCCN: 2014047371 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Geographic Orientation - Georgia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Melton, James Van Horn: - 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 f�r Geschichte in G�ttingen, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2012�3 he served as President of the Central European History Society. |