New World Literacy: Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700 9781611480276, 9781611480269

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 9780812205985

Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of

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New Orleans in the Atlantic World 9780415849722

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Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 [1 ed.] 9780812205985, 9780812220803

In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the o

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The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936 9780268106935

In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of

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Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines 9781442661936

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cult

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Imagining Culture: New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada 9780773565432

Many former members of European empires have demonstrated a need to overcome the colonial process and assert a "pos

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Imagining culture: new world narrative and the writing of Canada 9780773513617, 9780773565432, 9780773513082

Turner examines the manner in which a new world culture represents itself, creates its origins, and constructs and under

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Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World 9780807133590

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Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order 9781934536568

This book offers the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-

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Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order [4] 1934536458, 9781934536452

Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable historie

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