Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University)

American Slavery, American Imperialism

Us Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally.

Produktdetails

• Slaveries since Emancipation
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781108701914
• ISBN-10: 1108701914
• Artikelnr.: 67637894

Autorenporträt

Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in American History at Loughborough University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A rhetorical continuum? How representations of antebellum slavery endure in post-war culture
2. Global contexts: how external factors drive US perceptions of slavery
3. Othering the slave owner
4. Othering the enslaved
5. Gender and the rhetoric of slavery
6. Resistance and the slavery counter-narrative
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.