With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost. He offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation - David Brion Davis od authora David Brion Davis a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
David Brion Davis |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
448 |
| Rok vydání |
2015 |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
Vintage |
