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.
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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, and deferent subject to free citizen.
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