Reordering the landscape of Wye House : nature, spirituality, and social order /

This book examines early European American and African American gardening practices, social order and material culture at the Wye House plantation. Located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, this plantation housed the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of enslaved Africans and African Americans, includi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pruitt, Elizabeth (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
Subjects:	Wye House (Md.) > History. Cultural landscapes > Maryland > Talbot County > History. Nature > Effect of human beings on > Maryland > Talbot County > History. Gardening > Maryland > Talbot County > History. Social structure > Maryland > Talbot County > History. Material culture > Maryland > Talbot County > History. European Americans > Maryland > Talbot County > Social life and customs. African Americans > Maryland > Talbot County > Social life and customs. Talbot County (Md.) > Race relations > History. Archaeology and history > Maryland > Talbot County.

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Summary:	This book examines early European American and African American gardening practices, social order and material culture at the Wye House plantation. Located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, this plantation housed the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of enslaved Africans and African Americans, including Frederick Douglass. Pruitt examines the different possible interactions and understandings of nature at the Wye House and their impact on the dynamic, culturally-based and entangled landscape of imposed and hidden meanings, colonization and resistance and science and magic. This book is recommended for scholars interested in historic and public archeology, applied anthropology, American and African American history and race studies.
Physical Description:	xviii, 139 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index.
ISBN:	9781498528238 1498528236