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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Voigt, Lisa (Associate professor) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations
Premios:Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2009
ISBN:9781469600284