{"product_id":"in-the-matter-of-nat-turner-9780691204185","title":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History \u0026amp; Culture (Virginia Historical Society)\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] expertly constructed work, one of the handful of books on Turner destined to become essential reading for understanding the events of August 1831.\"\u003cb\u003e---Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e] succeeds in challenging established assumptions about Turner’s intellectual world, and it is likely that, with its publication, historians will be much more inclined to pay more attention to the importance of religion in Turner’s rebellion.\"\u003cb\u003e---Enrico Dal Iago, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major achievement. Tomlins is a brilliant historian, and his study is full of many new insights that make significant contributions to our understanding. Most importantly, Tomlins is one of the only historians to pay careful attention to the mind of the rebel leader. . . . Tomlins has given us a well-researched, always interesting and intellectually stimulating new book on Nat Turner. We should be deeply grateful for this extraordinary, sparkling work of history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kenneth S. Greenberg, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You can peel off layers, break off pieces and grab chunks out of \u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner, A Speculative History\u003c\/i\u003e by Christopher Tomlins and have what I call a good book chew. Indigestion only comes because it makes you think about what you’re chewing.\"\u003cb\u003e---Arelya J. Mitchell, \u003ci\u003eThe Mid-South Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new reading of the well-known and much written-about document purporting to record the confession of the leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, set in the context of a thick reconstruction of the local legal and political debates about slavery and representation. Christopher Tomlins makes the argument that previous interpreters have failed to take Turner seriously as a religious thinker, reducing his visionary religious narrative to nothing more than a cover for his political objectives. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e is a very ambitious and complex book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ambitious and deeply researched intellectual achievement…\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner \u003c\/i\u003estands as an exemplar and benchmark of \u003ci\u003eboth \u003c\/i\u003ethe depth and imagination with which we ought to engage Nat Turner \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003ethe perils imposing our own facticity upon him in the process.\"\u003cb\u003e---M. Cooper Harriss, \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e] is a book about the Nat Turner revolt as much as it is about the craft of writing history. By framing his arguments in Benjaminian terms, Tomlins succeeds in addressing questions of subaltern voices, archival silences and the limits of historical narrative . . . Tomlins makes a compelling case.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sebastian Jobs, \u003ci\u003eAnnual Bulletin of Historical Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] remarkably interesting book…[\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e is] endlessly fascinating . . . [Chris Tomlins] takes us on an illuminated mystery tour of this most mysterious of events and much else besides. . . . Enriching.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Harvey, \u003ci\u003eChurch History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Tomlins’s book shows how historical speculation and conjecture can be done in a way that is nonetheless solidly grounded in biblical, philosophical, anthropological, and historical context.\"\u003cb\u003e---Angela Fernandez, \u003ci\u003eLegal History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For those looking for a provocative set of speculations about Turner’s religiosity, [\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e] provides much about which to think and argue.\"\u003cb\u003e---Vanessa M. Holden, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] profound new book…\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner is a book \u003c\/i\u003eteeming with insight. Tomlins’ provocative analysis of Turner’s own ideas will no doubt generate fruitful debate and have to be reckoned with by scholars in a variety of fields. But beyond that, Tomlins provides us with a powerful model for how to write history that both links individual biography with broader structural analysis and that centers the perspective of those long excluded.\"\u003cb\u003e---Aziz Rana, \u003ci\u003eLegal Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Christopher Tomlins’ \u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e offers new insights into the thinking of Nat Turner and then employs those insights to meditate upon the discipline of history itself. Through his searching study of the actors and events of 1831, Tomlins interrogates contemporary historians’ own thinking and practice, their blind spots and erasures, their commitment to a disciplinary machine that yields often crushingly familiar answers. For these reasons, \u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e deserves a readership not only among historians of the antebellum South, but also among all interested in history as a modern knowledge form.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kunal Parker, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important, 'speculative' work of intellectual history for all academic collections.\" * Choice Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is not only tremendously enjoyable, but also a very useful addition to the field of slavery and the history of resistance and rebellion in the Americas.\"\u003cb\u003e---Laura Sandy, \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a master class in what it means to explore the unwritten, to engage with the fragmentary, and to expand the potentialities of historical research.\"\u003cb\u003e---Honor Sachs, \u003ci\u003eLaw and History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] brilliant and challenging book. . . . Tomlins crafts a new major interpretation in this ‘intellectual history of Nat Turner,’ centered on a compelling account of Turner’s faith and its collision with the emerging political and economic order of antebellum Virginia. . . . A richly rewarding book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Randolph Scully, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A skillful reading and imagining of the sources . . . [and] a compelling retelling of Nat Turnerʼs life, beliefs, and intellect as well as the political significance of his rebellion.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tamika Nunley, \u003ci\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tomlins has succeeded in writing a distinctive sort of intellectual history. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn the Matter of Nat Turner \u003c\/i\u003eoffers much more than a new analysis of Turner’s \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e---Bradford J. Wood, \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An incredibly complex, erudite, and thought provoking book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Bruce E. Baker, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religious History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403893055831,"sku":"9780691204185","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691204185.jpg?v=1730484816","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-matter-of-nat-turner-9780691204185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}