{"product_id":"the-brink-of-freedom-9780822361510","title":"The Brink of Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Brink of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Terrific. . . . Innovative.\" -- Sean X. Goudie * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kazanjian has constructed an extensively well-researched and theoretically complex study that develops a new approach to comparative scholarship, highlights new paths to archival research, and suggests new reading strategies that help us examine how non-European actors imagined a future defined by freedom, one of the principal tenets of modernity and of nineteenth-century liberalism.\" -- Ty West * The Latin Americanist *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Brink of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative study that serves as a model for interdisciplinary research.” -- Christina C. Davidson * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Liberia: Epistolary Encounters\u003cbr\u003e Prelude  35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. It All Most Cost Us Death Seeking Life: Recursive Returns and Unsettled Nativities  53\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Suffering Gain and It Remain: The Speculative Freedom of Early Liberia  91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Yucatán: Una Guerra Escrita\u003cbr\u003e Prelude  133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. En Sus Futuros Destinos: Casta Capitalism  155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Por Eso Peleamos: Recasting Libertad  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Archives for the Future  227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  315","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406096212311,"sku":"9780822361510","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361510.jpg?v=1730494511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-brink-of-freedom-9780822361510","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}