Gloria Jahoda (1926–1980)
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Jahoda, Gloria Adelaide Love
- Geboortedatum
- 1926-10-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1980-01-13
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Opleiding
- Northwestern University (BA - English, MS - Anthropology)
- Beroepen
- novelist
non-fiction author - Organisaties
- University of Wisconsin
Tallahassee Historical Society (President)
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The Trail of Tears door Gloria Jahoda
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The author has a Master's Degree in anthropology from Northwestern University. She has written other books and numerous articles. Peter Farb, author, anthropologist and biologist said of this work, "[It is] a highly readable, well researched, and altogether fascinating account of a dreadful chapter in American history. Ms. Jahoda's scholarship is evident, yet it never gets in the way of her story and her outrage." Source: The book's dust jacket. The book includes chapter notes, a bibliography, an appendix of selected government documents on Indian removal and is well indexed.… (meer)
A very interesting book about the relocation of the many Indian nations to other parts of the country by the US Government. It is not a very flattering account of how our government dealt with a group of people to whom we promised much but broke most of those promises.
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