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(1930-2012) Historian. Eugene D. Genovese was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Atlanta, Georgia.

Full Name

Eugene D Genovese

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Mr. Genovese received a bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College.

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Mr. Genovese received a master's and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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Mr. Genovese taught at the University of Rochester.

1930

BIRTH

Eugene Dominick Genovese was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 19, 1930.

1965

LITWORK

The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
Pantheon Books

Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation
Pantheon Books

Nonfiction.

1974

LITWORK

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made
Random House Inc
0394491319 / 978-0394491318
Nonfiction, winner of the 1975 Bancroft Prize for American history writing.

1983

LITWORK

Fruits Of Merchant Capital: Slavery And Bourgeois Property In The Rise And Expansion Of Capitalism
Oxford University

Written with his wife, historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

1992

LITWORK

Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
University of South Carolina Press
0872497836 / 978-0872497832
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
Harvard University Press
0674825276 / 978-0674825277
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
University of Georgia Press
0820320463 / 978-0820320465
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

The Mind Of The Master Class: History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
Cambridge University

Written with his wife, historian, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

2008

LITWORK

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
Cambridge University Press
0521897009 / 978-0521897006
Nonfiction, written with his wife, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

2011

LITWORK

Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
Cambridge University Press
1107011647 / 978-1107011649
Nonfiction, written with his wife, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

2012

DEATH

Eugene D. Genovese died at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 26, 2012.

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