Caravan Books
The University of North Carolina Press is proud to be part of Caravan, a project merging traditional book publishing and distribution with new digital technologies. Each Caravan title will be published simultaneously in traditional hardcover or original paperback bindings; in large print; and in downloadable e-books and audio books. Caravan's mission is to serve all who have a stake in quality nonfiction-authors, publishers, wholesalers, retailers, and libraries-by offering "Good books. Any way you want them."
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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world.
The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity--one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience.
Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic. Learn More »
The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
Reconsidering the largest mutiny of the Civil War Learn More »
Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun
The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II
The gender roles and sexual codes of the "greatest generation" Learn More »
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
The most provocative word in the political vocabulary of antebellum America Learn More »
