Original publication date
2009
Pages
xvii; 246
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, c2009
Physical description
xvii, 246 p.; 18.5 cm
ISBN
9780674032965
Language
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms. Throughout, Hahn presents African Americans as central actors in the arenas of American politics, while emphasizing traditions of self-determination, self-governance, and self-defense.