ISBN: 9780801433443 - Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings, some in ink. xii, 417 p., illustrations, map, 23 cm. "Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial. Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism." From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). …

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