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Item specifics
- Condition
- Topic
- Slavery, Rich & Famous, United States / 20th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, North America, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- ISBN
- 9780393354171
- Book Title
- Strange Career of William Ellis : the Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 0.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393354172
ISBN-13
9780393354171
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234477865
Product Key Features
Book Title
Strange Career of William Ellis : the Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Slavery, Rich & Famous, United States / 20th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, North America, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Like all of his remarkable scholarship, Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis takes an unexpected or little-known subject and, with great insight and imagination, uses it to shed new light on our larger past. He has excavated a life that began in obscurity and was ever being reinvented, and, in so doing, offers a deep understanding of the shifting boundaries of place, race, and social standing. An extraordinary story told with extraordinary skill., An irresistible account of one of the great tricksters of his time, a fearless border and barrier-crosser, an artist of the great escape., A masterpiece of border history. Jacoby has a biographer's eye for detail and a detective's talent for discovery, which he deftly uses to construct both the inner emotional life and larger social world of his subject. At once a history of the United States and of Mexico, Strange Career offers a truly transnational history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century North America. Today, as borders are simultaneously being dissolved and hardened, Jacoby's study of Ellis's exceptional career is as timely as it is compelling., [Jacoby] presents Ellis' intriguing story...Equally intriguing is the history of the post-Civil War Texas-Mexican borderland. Jacoby's book may well have you searching his bibliography for books on that subject., [A] welcome and nuanced perspective to the racial history of the U.S. as well as a textured examination of the legacy of distrust between the United States and Mexico. ...Ellis' life is also a cracking good story, illustrated with intriguing photos and helpful maps topped off by an emotionally satisfying epilogue., A work of admirable sleuthing...Jacoby has assembled a portrait of a man who deliberately sought to cover his own tracks., William Ellis was a chameleon, a trickster, and a man determined to shape his own identity. With enormous skill, Karl Jacoby uncovers this tremendous subject, revealing Ellis's lies, and crafting a powerful new narrative about the porous borders of class, race, and national identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American life. Deftly moving between the improbable details of Ellis's biography and the larger political and cultural stories of the day, Jacoby demonstrates how one man's life can help us understand the past in an entirely new way.
Dewey Edition
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Dewey Decimal
306.3/62092 B
Synopsis
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "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." --Wall Street Journal, A 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., A 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.
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