E. Fay & L. von Morze 
Urban Identity and the Atlantic World 

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.

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PART I: SPATIAL PROJECTIONS OF POWER 1. Atlantic Urban Transfers in Early Modernity: Mazagão from Africa to the Americas; Jorge Correia 2. From Colonial Subjectivity to ‘Enlightened’ Selfhood: The Spatial Rhetoric of the Plaza de Armas of Havana, Cuba, 1771-1828; Paul Niell 3. Urban Driftwood: Mobile Catholic Markers and the Extension of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Public Sphere; Karin Vélez PART II: THE SITE OF REFORM 4. The Plymouth Rock of Old England?: James Cropper, Atlantic Anti-Slavery, and Liverpool’s Civic Identity; Keith Mason 5. Romancing Post-Napoleonic Britain: The Metrical Tale and The Fabulation of Simón Bolívar; Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge 6. Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia: African Lawyers in Colonial Urban Lagos; Bonny Ibhawoh Part III: IDENTITY AND IMAGINATIVE HISTORY 7. Leonora Sansay’s Anatopic Imagination; Michael Drexler 8. Transatlantic Loops and Urban Anonymity in Mary Shelley’s Lodore; Cynthia S. Williams 9.The Spanish Archive and the Remapping of U.S. History in Washington Irving’s Columbus; Lindsay Di Cuirci Section IV: Cultures of Performance 10. Meere Strangers: Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-1630; Coll Thrush 11. Theater in the Combat Zone: Military Theatricals at Philadelphia, 1778; David Worrall

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Jorge Correia, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal Lindsay Di Cuirci, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Michael Drexler, Bucknell University, USA Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Bonny Ibhawoh. Mc Master University, Canada Keith Mason, University of Liverpool, UK Paul Niell, Florida State University, UK Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia, Canada Karin Vélez History at Macalester College, USA Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Cynthia Schoolar, Tufts University, USA David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, UK.