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Robert Alston Jones
Robert Alston Jones draws a detailed account of his English and German forebears in Charleston from the early years of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. The inte...vizualizați mai multeRobert Alston Jones draws a detailed account of his English and German forebears in Charleston from the early years of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. The intersection of their experiences as immigrants in the South’s unique Low country city with major political and cultural events occurring at the local, state, and national levels effected the acculturation and transformation of these European settlers into representative Charlestonians by the end of the century. Who were these individuals in search of new beginnings? How did their heritage affect their life in the South’s most historic city? What did they leave behind in the common blood of the city’s ethnic past? Jones’s account reveals the course of these families’ interconnected personal lives during more than eighty years of tumultuous times in Charleston.
Robert Alston Jones, a Charleston native, is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he served as faculty member and administrator for thirty-six years. His degrees in German Language and Literature from Duke University and the University of Texas-Austin heightened his appreciation of his German and English immigrant heritage in Charleston and facilitated his research into the European origins of his extended immigrant family. Here he portrays their experiences against the backdrop of the city’s unique political, cultural and social foundations.
A resident of Milwaukee since 1966, Jones still considers himself a Charlestonian at heart.vizualizați mai puține
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Common Blood: The Life and Times of an Immigrant Family in Charleston, Sc.