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"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentim...

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1. Verfasser: Brown, Christopher Leslie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ]2006]
Schriftenreihe:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Zusammenfassung:"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--Page 4 of cover.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 480 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Auszeichnungen:Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2007
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469600994
1469600994
0807830348
9780807830345
0807856983
9780807856987

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