The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire (eBook)

Karl Jacoby (Autor)

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2016
352 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-25386-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"e;An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab."e; Wall Street JournalA black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 8 pages of illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1800s • 19th century • African American • Biography • Black • Emancipation • Entrepreneur • historical detective • juneteenth • Mexico City • national identity • phillis wheatley award • ray allen billington prize • San Antonio • Slavery • Trickster
• ISBN-10: 0-393-25386-4 / 0393253864
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-25386-3 / 9780393253863