The Intimacies of Four Continents Silver Holding water with ease

Holding water with ease

With contributions by Anselm Berrigan

Edited by Ruth Erickson

punctuates the book with a further-reaching interest in tradition and timelessness that looks beyond the scope of these events to the landscape

The Intimacies of Four Continents Silver Holding water with easeLisa Lowe In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo American empire, observing that