Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
by
David Kazanjian
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets...