1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481207103321

Autore

Mersenne Marin <1588-1648.>

Titolo

Vniuersae geometriae, mixtaeque mathematicae synopsis, et bini refractionum demonstratarum tractatus. Studio & operâ F.M. Mersenne M [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : [s.n.], 1644

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([32], 589 [i.e. 591, 1] p., 4º)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959171403321

Autore

Breen T. H

Titolo

"Myne owne ground" : race and freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 / / T.H. Breen, Stephen Innes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-84492-2

Edizione

[25th anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 142 p. ) : 1 map ;

Altri autori (Persone)

InnesStephen

Disciplina

975.5/100496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) - History - 17th century

African Americans - Virginia - History - 17th century

African Americans - History - 17th century - Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)

African Americans - History - 17th century - Virginia

United States Local History

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

History

Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) Race relations History 17th century

Virginia Race relations History 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-135) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek -- Race relations as status and process -- Northampton County at mid-century -- The free blacks of the Eastern Shore -- Conclusion : property and the context of freedom.

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history. In a new foreword, Breen and Innes reflect on the origins of this book, setting it into the context of Atlantic and particularly African history.