{"id":8521,"date":"2010-08-26T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2013-01-03T03:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T03:09:38","slug":"the-shadow-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8521","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/catalog\/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=689457\" target=\"_blank\">The Shadow King<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mariner Books an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a><br \/>\n2004-11-23<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\nTrim Size: 5.50 x 8.25<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/details.php?id=j.b.stevenson\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Stevenson<\/a><\/strong>, Regius Chair of Humanity<br \/>\n<em>University of Aberdeen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/catalog\/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=689457\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/assets\/product\/0618485368_hres.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Shadow King<\/em>, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit love between a queen of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemia\" target=\"_blank\">Bohemia<\/a> and an exiled African prince. A gifted young doctor in the late seventeenth century, <strong>Balthasar struggles with very contemporary issues of identity, brought into play by his difficult heritage.<\/strong> Driven out of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holland\" target=\"_blank\">Holland<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plague_(disease)\" target=\"_blank\">plague<\/a>, he makes his way first to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/raffish\" target=\"_blank\">raffish<\/a>, cynical world of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Restoration_(England)\" target=\"_blank\">Restoration<\/a> London, where he encounters Aphra Behn, the English spy and sometimes playwright. He leaves to seek prosperity in colonial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemia\" target=\"_blank\">Barbados<\/a>, a society marked by slavery and savage racism. Utterly absorbing and deeply perceptive, <em>The Shadow King<\/em> brings the past radiantly to life in people\u2019s habits of speech, their food and fashions, and their medical practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shadow King Mariner Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-11-23 320 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368 Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity University of Aberdeen In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,125,8,15],"tags":[1135,3609,1134],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-jane-stevenson","tag-mariner-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}