Intimacies of Four Continents
328 pages2015Duke University PressISBN 9780822358756
CommerceModern CivilizationSlave tradeLiberalismLibertyCivilization, modernHandelLiberalismusKolonialismusSklavenhandel
About this book
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism -- Back cover.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN
- 9780822358756
About Unknown Author
Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and an affiliate faculty in the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of French and comparative literature, and since then her work has focused on the cultural politics of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for scholarship on French, British, and United States colonialisms, Asian migration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative empires.
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