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  • Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

    Edición de Alexandra Ganser, Charne Lavery ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility ... Leer más

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  • Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy

    1678-1865

    de Alexandra Ganser ...
    Series series Maritime Literature and Culture
    This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s ... Leer más

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  • Sea Changes

    Historicizing the Ocean

    Edición de Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun ...
    The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea**Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    de Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Leer más

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    de Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Leer más

    $15.09 USD

  • Outlaws of the Atlantic

    Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail

    de Marcus Rediker ...
    This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship.In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the ... Leer más

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  • Alien Capital

    Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

    de Iyko Day ...
    In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features. This ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    de Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • Cultural Geography

    de Mike Crang ...
    First Published in 1998. The so-called 'cultural tum' in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture, taking cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place. Cultural Geography introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life ... Leer más

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  • Whiteness of a Different Color

    de Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement ... Leer más

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  • Comparison

    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    Edición de Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Reckoning with Slavery

    Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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