Cresheim Farm
An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Jun '23
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- Hardback£135.00(9781032330259)
This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change.
Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but strategically placed piece of land—home to an extraordinary array of people, including early anti-slavery and anti-Nazi activists, the first woman editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a robber baron—can tell, affect and reflect the history of a nation. The writing is historically grounded and academic, future-oriented, deeply researched, and immediate. Cresheim Farm serves as a lens through which to observe and understand social forces, such as the launching point of freedom and democracy movements, white privilege, slavery, and genocidal westward expansion. The past lives on in all of us.
“In the great tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gunnar Myrdal, Antje Mattheus sheds a brilliant light, along with original and compelling insights, onto American life and culture—this time, from the intriguing vantage point of a single homestead, a historical farmhouse in the city of Philadelphia. This fascinating book is a must-read!”
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University
“This book is a work of political archeology, an exploration of the sedimented politics of a place, seen over a long period of time….‘Where do we come from?’ {and} ‘Where does our knowledge come from?’ Or, ‘How can we know what we know?’ These are the deep questions that this book proposes.”
From the Foreword by Howard Winant, coauthor of Racial Formation in the United States
“This is an engaging and welcome history of the Unami Lenape Indian Nation that owned and farmed the land around Philadelphia long before the coming of European colonists. The extreme violence and abuse practiced upon the Lenape are given close attention…a hard and unsparing look. Mattheus also documents the roles of women, helping to overcome the near invisibility of Native people and women in history.”
Robert T. Coulter is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center.
ISBN: 9781032330228
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 320g
282 pages