Lowe The Intimacies of Four Continents

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7564-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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 labor, colonialism and trade must be understood as being mutually constitutive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Intimacies of Four Continents 1

2. Autobiography Out of Empire 43

3. A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities 73

4. The Ruses of Liberty 101

5. Freedoms Yet to Come 135

Acknowledgments 177

Notes 181

References 269

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and the coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, both also published by Duke University Press.