ISBN: 9780822358756 - the intimacies of four continents (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which the human is universalized and freed by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

paperback. Zustand: As New. Durham, 2015; illustrated paper covers; minimal shelf wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 319 pages.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. 304.

Zustand: New. 2015. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: New. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries. She argues that Western liberal ideology, African slavery, Asian indentured.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Intimacies of Four Continents | Lisa Lowe | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2015 | Duke University Press | EAN 9780822358756 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …