Bøger af Stephen Innes

Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labour in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travellers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban labourers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas.

Provides readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. This book reconstructs a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive, makes this a critical and urgent work of history.