Philip Alexander Bruce (1856–1933)
Autor von Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Werke von Philip Alexander Bruce
Institutional history of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the religious, moral, educational, legal,… (1964) 13 Exemplare
Economic history of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the material condition of the people, based… (1895) 9 Exemplare
History of Virginia 3 Exemplare
History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919, Vol. 1: The Lengthened Shadow of One Man (Classic Reprint) (2017) 3 Exemplare
The Virginia magazine of history and biography 2 Exemplare
THE VIRGINIA PLUTARCH (2 VOLS. 1929) #1. the Colonial & Revolutionary Eras. #2 the National Era 1 Exemplar
History of Virginia Vol 1 1 Exemplar
Robert E. Lee 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Bruce, Phillip Alexander
- Geburtstag
- 1856
- Todestag
- 1933
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
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Rezensionen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 20
- Mitglieder
- 95
- Beliebtheit
- #197,646
- Bewertung
- 4.3
- Rezensionen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 16
As for the book, it generates a mild interest because of the author's involuted prose; his combination of circumlocution and euphemism as he describes the horrors lurking within the mind of the black man making a peculiar contrast between the act and the purple prose. For that matter, one could make the same statement about the atrocities, which of course he justifies, inflicted upon the freedmen by whites to impose and enforce Jim Crow. But the author is extremely repetitive; the same themes recur in chapter after chapter and become quite tiresome. The last third of the book veers off into a more concrete description of housing and labor conditions of the freedmen and is slightly less hateful, but is hardly very interesting reading.… (mehr)