Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

by Edward Sugden

Book Overview

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time

Emergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern era--colonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479889261
• ISBN13: 9781479889266
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"