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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic

Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds

Lisa Voigt

Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3199-1 $65.00
Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5944-5 $24.95

Copyright 2009 by The University of North Carolina Press

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“There is no book that addresses captivity in such a rich, comparative framework as Voigt’s Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic. Voigt convincingly shows how captivity–and the shared knowledge that it implies–complicates any straightforward account of national identity or imperial expansion.”

--Barbara Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania

“From the perspective of rival European states, imperial expansion was all about drawing bright lines on maps. But as Voigt’s richly researched literary and cultural study abundantly demonstrates, the early modern Atlantic was a domain of cross-cultural encounter that depended critically on knowledge gained through the experiences of captives; transcended national, religious, and linguistic boundaries; and resulted in interconnected histories and the development of common imperial ideologies in the region.”

--David Harris Sacks, Reed College