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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
Moore, Sean D. (Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire)
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
Moore, Sean D. (Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire)
This volume explores how profits from slavery underpinned the dissemination of British literature in America during the eighteenth century and how the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital.
288 pages, 21 halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 5, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780198836377 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Dimensions | 241 × 165 × 26 mm · 608 g |