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Tom Jones

On A Burning Deck

An Oral History of the Great Migration

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In the earliest decades of the 20th century, more than twenty-eight million men and women-black and white-began The Great Migration north from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and other states of the Deep South and Appalachia. This, as all were lured to the industrial centers of our country by high wages and the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families.Among the white southerners who left their homes, tens of thousands left Kentucky and came to work in the rubber factories of Ohio during the teens and twenties, forever changing the state's culture, history, and politics. Who were they? Other than the throwaway term of h… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-578-56270-4
  • EAN: 9780578562704
  • Produktnummer: 32919687
  • Verlag: Thomas W. Jones
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 614 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.7 cm 1'044 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 1044

Über den Autor


Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 - 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer.Fielding's lack of financial acumen meant he and his family often endured periods of poverty, but he was helped by Ralph Allen, a wealthy benefactor, on whom Squire Allworthy in Tom Jones was later based. Allen went on to provide for the education and support of Fielding's children after the writer's death.His greatest work was Tom Jones (1749), a meticulously constructed picaresque novel telling the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune.

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