Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line - Hardcover

Sandweiss, Martha A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594202001 ISBN 13: 9781594202001

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Traces the secret double life of a nineteenth-century scientist and surveyor of the post-Civil War American West, revealing the mixed heritage that enabled him to cross color lines and conduct a second existence as a black Pullman porter and steelworker with an African-American wife and five multi-racial children. 30,000 first printing.

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Martha A. Sandweiss is Professor of History at Princeton University. She began her career as a museum curator and taught for twenty years at Amherst College. She is the author of numerous works on western American history and the history of photography, including Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award, and Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace, and is the co-editor of the Oxford History of the American West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1594202001
• ISBN 13: 9781594202001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370