Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469665634)

One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable insights came from the connections she drew among them. Gender and race, slavery and freedom, feelings and politics ran together in the hearts, minds, and lives of the men and women she studied. Lewis's brilliant research revealed these long-buried connections and illuminated their importance for America's past and present.

Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis's most important essays. Distinguished scholars shed light on the historical and historiographical contexts in which Lewis and her peers researched, wrote, and argued. But the real star of this volume is Lewis herself: confident, unconventional, erudite, and deeply imaginative.

Author: Jan Ellen Lewis
ISBN-10: 1469665638
ISBN-13: 9781469665634
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.90w x 1.20d