Author: Andy Doolen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816644544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
'Fugitive Empire' locates imperialism as one of the foundation stones of the revolutionary state. Andy Doolen examines attitudes to ethnic difference manifested in the literature & politics of the 18th century to show how concepts of imperial authority lay at the heart of early American republicanism.
Fugitive Empire
Author: Andy Doolen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816644544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
'Fugitive Empire' locates imperialism as one of the foundation stones of the revolutionary state. Andy Doolen examines attitudes to ethnic difference manifested in the literature & politics of the 18th century to show how concepts of imperial authority lay at the heart of early American republicanism.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816644544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
'Fugitive Empire' locates imperialism as one of the foundation stones of the revolutionary state. Andy Doolen examines attitudes to ethnic difference manifested in the literature & politics of the 18th century to show how concepts of imperial authority lay at the heart of early American republicanism.
Fugitive Science
Author: Britt Rusert
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.
Reflections on Empire
Author: Antonio Negri
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745637051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to the key ideas of his recent work. Giving the reader a sense of the wider context in which Negri has developed the ideas that have become so central to current debates, the book is made up of five lectures which address a series of topics that are dealt with in his world-famous books empire, globalization, multitude, sovereignty, democracy. Reflections on Empire will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today, to the many people who are followers of Negri's work and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745637051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to the key ideas of his recent work. Giving the reader a sense of the wider context in which Negri has developed the ideas that have become so central to current debates, the book is made up of five lectures which address a series of topics that are dealt with in his world-famous books empire, globalization, multitude, sovereignty, democracy. Reflections on Empire will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today, to the many people who are followers of Negri's work and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.
Fugitive Freedom
Author: William B. Taylor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520397665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule. Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture—a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520397665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule. Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture—a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together.
Turkey, from Empire to Revolutionary Republic
Author: Sina Akşin
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Traces the roots of the Turkish Republic to the Ottoman Empire
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Traces the roots of the Turkish Republic to the Ottoman Empire
La comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
La comeÌdie humaine of HonoreÌ de Balzac: EugeÌnie Grandet. A study of woman. Another study of woman. La grande BreteÌche. Domestic peace. The imaginary mistress
Author: HonoreÌ de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Eugenie Grandet ; A study of woman ; Another study of woman ; La grande breteche ; Domestic peace ; The imaginary mistress ; Ursule Mirouet ; Massimilla Doni ; A seaside tragedy ; The red inn
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Eugénie Grandet. A study of woman. Another study of woman. La grande Bretêche. Domestic peace. The imaginary mistress
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description