{"product_id":"the-brink-of-freedom-improvising-life-in-the-nineteenth-century-atlantic-world-9780822361510","title":"The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Brink of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucat n imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucat n, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of racial capitalism. By juxtaposing two unheralded and seemingly unrelated Atlantic histories, Kazanjian finds remarkably fresh, nuanced, and worldly conceptions of freedom thriving amidst the archived everyday. \u003ci\u003eThe Brink of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e's speculative, quotidian globalities ultimately ask us to improvise radical ways of living in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kazanjian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822361510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40198629621875,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":96.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_38504c1d-9ec9-44d5-b254-a72036ddd4e1.jpg?v=1656079556","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-brink-of-freedom-improvising-life-in-the-nineteenth-century-atlantic-world-9780822361510","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}