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The Brink of Freedom : Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World /

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted libe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kazanjian, David, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822374107