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American travel and empire /
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term 'American', used here in the hemispheric sense, and 'American travel writing' include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What are we doing here? Scenarios for early English colonies in North America / Donald Ross
- 'The lies of a distant traveler'? The travel writing of Louis de Hennepin
- French representations of Niagara: from Hennepin to Butor / Charles Forsdick
- 'Come to these Arcadian regions where there is room for millions': citizen Imlay and the empire in the west / Will Verhoeven
- The conquest of antiquity: the travelling empire of John Lloyd Stephens
- 'A confusion of unwashed and shabbily dressed people': nineteenth-century Americans and urban Britain / Shirley Foster
- Sunny tropic scenes: US travel writers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba / Peter Hulme
- Henry James and the 'Swelling act of the imperial theme' / Peter Rawlings
- The pacifist traveller: Kate Crane-Gartz / Tim Youngs
- American ambassadors: travellers in the Cold War / David Seed
- In the missionary position: Emily Prager in China / Judie Newman.