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  • Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals)

    British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and 1834, ... Leer más

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    Four British Folkways in America

    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Leer más

    $478 MXN

  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Leer más

    $489 MXN

  • 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

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  • Long Before Stonewall

    Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

    Edición de Thomas A. Foster ...
    2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal ... Leer más

    $494 MXN

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Leer más

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  • Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–1802

    de Wil Verhoeven ...
    This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edición de Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Leer más

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  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... Leer más

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  • Unbecoming British

    How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation

    What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the ... Leer más

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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Leer más

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  • The Literary Quest for an American National Character

    de Finn Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    "What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these ... Leer más

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