Cresheim Farm
An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality
Antje Ulrike Mattheus
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Cresheim Farm
An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality
Antje Ulrike Mattheus
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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.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Book Cover Description
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor Foreword by Jodi O’Brien and Marcus Hunter
- Foreword: Cresheim Farm, Political Archeology, and the Radication of Place by Howard Winant
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of Cresheim Farm Land Occupancy
- Site Plan, Illustration of Buildings
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Colonization and Whiteness
- Part III Manifest Destiny and Class Struggle
- Part IV Race, Gender, and Activism
- Bibliography
- Index