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  • Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic

    by Cassander L. Smith ...
    Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. The term “respectability politics” refers to the way members of a minoritized population adopt the customs and manners of a dominant culture in order to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Black Africans in the British Imagination

    English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World

    by Cassander L. Smith ...
    As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically, these writers focused on encounters with black Africans throughout the Atlantic world, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Black Africans in the British Imagination

    English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World

    by Cassander L. Smith ...
    As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically, these writers focused on encounters with black Africans throughout the Atlantic world, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Earliest African American Literatures

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Cassander L. Smith ...
    With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by Cassander L. Smith, Nicholas R. Jones, Miles P. Grier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    by Susan Castillo ...
    American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaningCovers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865Designed to ... Read more

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  • Reckoning with Slavery

    Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Seasons of Misery

    Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America

    by Kathleen Donegan ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers a provocative reexamination of the British colonies' chaotic and profoundly unstable beginnings, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Faithful Bodies

    Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

    by Heather Miyano Kopelson ...
    In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

    by Jeremy Chow, Elliot Patsoura, Annette Hulbert, Adam Sweeting, Shelby Johnson, Mariah Crilley, Claire Campbell, Jason Payton, Matt Duquès, Ami Yoon0, Christopher Allan Black1, Kate Scarth2 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Early American Cartographies

    Edited by Martin Brückner ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited.Drawing from both current historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives, this ... Read more

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  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    by Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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