Emergent Worlds : : Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture / / Edward Sugden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Sugden, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Transition States in the Chaotic Pacific, 1812– 1848
• 2. Suspended States in the Long Caribbean, 1791– 1861
• 3. Threshold States in the Immigrant Atlantic, 1789– 1857
• Coda
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author