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• ISBN: 041502675X
• ISBN: 9780415026758
• ISBN: 0415060958
• ISBN: 9780415060950
• Physical Description: xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-250) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Criticism in the contact zone -- Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary, consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II: the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- The reinvention of America, 1800-50 -- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America -- Reinvention America II: the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing America/reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning -- Imperial stylistics, 1860-1980 -- From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador.

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