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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by Wilder, Craig Steven
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1596916818
- ISBN 13
- 9781596916814
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated : First U.S. edition 2013 with complete number line including number one. No previous printing outside the U.S. noted. Hard cover in fine condition with brown boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 423 numbered pages; illustrations and portraits throughout. Concludes with Section of Acknowledgments, Notes to the Chapters, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap: ""An eye-opening examination of how America's colonial-era colleges were rooted in slave economies . . . A groundbreaking history that will no doubt contribute to a reappraisal of some deep-rooted founding myths."" --from Kirkus Reviews. In Ebony & Ivy, historian Craig Steven Wilder delivers a groundbreaking and incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, race, and higher education in America. Meticulously researched and passionately written, this work makes clear just how deeply the evil of slavery sank its tentacles into every cranny of American society and culture. . . . Academia was no exception. . . . ""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001553
- Title
- Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- Author
- Wilder, Craig Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1596916818
- ISBN 13
- 9781596916814
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- History, African Americans, African Americans and American Education - History, Slavery - Race - Education
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American Studies; Education; History;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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