The Jew Who Would Be King
A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa
Contenu
"This astonishing story of a British Jewish adventurer who made an unlikely career for himself on Africa's colonial frontier doubles as a searching inquiry into the ways that slavery, sexism, racism, and antisemitism shaped Victorian society. A dazzling achievement."—Dane Kennedy, author of The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World
“Inspired, entertaining, and thoroughly unsentimental, The Jew Who Would Be King is a masterwork about the turbulent life of a heretofore neglected nineteenth-century personage. A veritable page-turner.”—Nathan P. Devir, author of New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization
“Inspired, entertaining, and thoroughly unsentimental, The Jew Who Would Be King is a masterwork about the turbulent life of a heretofore neglected nineteenth-century personage. A veritable page-turner.”—Nathan P. Devir, author of New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization
Informations bibliographiques
avril 2025, env. 352 Pages, Anglais
University Presses
978-0-520-40300-0