
Intimacies of Four Continents
by Lisa Lowe
Title:
Intimacies of Four Continents
Author:
Lisa Lowe
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
328 pages, 10 illustrations
Publisher:
Duke University Press
ISBN-13:
9780822358756
EAN:
9780822358756
Publication Date:
08/06/2015
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
588
Dimensions (mm):
154 x 230 x 21
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries. She argues that Western liberal ideology, African slavery, Asian indentured labor, colonialism and trade must be understood as being mutually constitutive.










