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847175
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Kazanjian, David,1967-
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| Title & Author
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The brink of freedom : : improvising life in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /\ David Kazanjian.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2016.
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, ©20
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, ©2016
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1 online resource (329 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0822374102
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0822361515
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0822361701
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9780822361510
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9780822361701
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.
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| Contents
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Atlantic speculations, quotidian globalities -- Liberia -- It all most cost us death seeking life? Recursive returns and unsettled nativities -- Suffering gain and it remain? The speculative freedom of early Liberia -- Yucatán -- En sus futuros destinos? Casta capitalism -- Por eso peleamos? Recasting libertad -- Coda -- Archives for the future.
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| Abstract
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In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.
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African Americans-- Colonization-- Liberia-- History-- 19th century.
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Mayas-- Mexico-- Yucatán (State)-- History-- 19th century.
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African Americans-- Colonization.
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HISTORY / Africa / General
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HISTORY-- Africa-- West.
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Mayas.
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Liberia, History, 20th century.
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Yucatán (Mexico : State), History, 19th century.
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Liberia.
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Mexico, Yucatán (State)
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| Dewey Classification
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966.62/02
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DT633.K393 2016
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