Orser Joseph Andrew Lives of Chang and Eng 9781469642338

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Автор: Orser Joseph Andrew
Название: Lives of Chang and Eng
ISBN: 9781469642338
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Азии

История Америк

Культурология

Потеря трудоспособности: социальные аспекты

ISBN-10: 1469642336
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 10 halftones
Размер: 231 x 152 x 15
Ключевые слова: Regional & national history,Asian history,Cultural studies,Disability: social aspects, HISTORY / Asia / General,HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
Подзаголовок: Siam`s twins in nineteenth-century america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as freaks of nature and Oriental curiosities. More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them. Though the brothers constantly professed their normality, they occupied a strange space in nineteenth-century America. They spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, the brothers were seen by most Americans as monstrosities, an affront they were unable to escape.Joseph Andrew Orser chronicles the twins history, their sometimes raucous journey through antebellum America, their domestic lives in North Carolina, and what their fame revealed about the changing racial and cultural landscape of the United States. More than a biography of the twins, the result is a study of nineteenth-century American culture and society through the prism of Chang and Eng that reveals how Americans projected onto the twins their own hopes and fears.
Дополнительное описание: General and world history|Disability: social aspects|Asian history|Cultural studies

Lives of Chang and Eng, Orser Joseph Andrew