Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /
"How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by bot...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2009.
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Colección: | Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Building a common vocabulary: the language of reform and the slave-trade debates
- Converging arguments in British resistance: writing from the colonies to Great Britain, 1759-1776
- Proliferating antislavery arguments and the creation of an activist community, 1772-1789
- The proslavery rebuttal: developing new strategies of defense, 1770-1789
- Whose victory? Abolition and the construction of British identity, 1788-1807.
- Building a common vocabulary: the language of reform and the slave-trade debates
- Converging arguments in British resistance: writing from the colonies to Great Britain, 1759-1776
- Proliferating antislavery arguments and the creation of an activist community, 1772-1789
- The proslavery rebuttal: developing new strategies of defense, 1770-1789.