Eugene Genovese
Historian, Author
1930 – 2012
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Who was Eugene Genovese?
Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize. He later abandoned the Left and Marxism, and embraced traditionalist conservatism.
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- Born
- May 19, 1930
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Eugene Dominic Genovese
- Eugene D. Genovese
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Columbia University
History
( - 1959) - Brooklyn College
- PhD, Columbia University
- Employment
- Rutgers University
- Lived in
- Atlanta
( - 2012/09/26)
- Atlanta
- Died
- Sep 26, 2012
Atlanta
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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