Eugene D. Genovese
Author · 11 books
Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize. He later abandoned the Left and Marxism, and embraced traditionalist conservatism.
Series
Books
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The World the Slaves Made
1974
From Rebellion to Revolution
Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
1979
The Southern Tradition
The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
1994
The Sweetness of Life
Southern Planters at Home
2017
Fatal Self-Deception
Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
2011
Slaveholders' Dilemma
Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
1991
In Red and Black
Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History
1971
The Political Economy of Slavery
Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
1965
A Consuming Fire
The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
1998
The World the Slaveholders Made
1971
Miss Betsey
A Memoir of Marriage
2008
