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Writing captivity in the early modern Atlantic : circulations of knowledge and authority in the Iberian and English imperial worlds /
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, this book explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, this book explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Premios: | Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2009 |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469600284 1469600285 0807838780 9780807838785 0807838748 9780807838747 |