Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

by Mark Simpson

Book Overview

Redefines travel in the United States during the antebellum, postbellum, and early modernist periods In America, travel has regularly been associated with romantic notions of freedom, exploration, and possibility. Focusing on a broad range of movement in the nineteenth century, Trafficking Subjects challenges this conventional view, demonstrating the complexity of the politics of mobility in American culture. The texts that Mark Simpson consults are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816641625
• ISBN13: 9780816641628
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"