Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 [1 ed.] 9781684480210, 9781684480180

Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 9781684480210

Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations

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American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature 9780812203189

American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding

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Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It 0060936908, 9780060936907, 9780061632167

The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally

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Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution 9780674089174

After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to figh

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The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy 9781685890377, 9781685890360, 1685890377

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The Insurrection in Dublin

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Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture : Artificial Slaves [1 ed.] 9781136220746, 9780415631211

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and u

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Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature 9780822393832

Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen

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Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature 1793606676, 9781793606679

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by r

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Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature 1793606676, 9781793606679

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by r

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