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A Revisionist Literary HistoryTodd Kontje “Kontje shows how writers of the German eighteenth century came to an increasingly global understanding of the world organized around ideas of mobility and motion. He thereby foregrounds specific genres and formats (travel writing, autobiography, collected works editions, etc.) that ‘centrifugally’ directed eighteenth-century readers out toward the world in contrast to the ‘centripetal’ pull of works projecting a more limited idea of national culture.”
—Sean B. Franzel, co-editor of Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century
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Defining Humanity in an Era of ColonialismCarl Niekerk “Niekerk’s intellectual history is powerful in the simplicity of its thesis: that in its development out of natural history, the discipline we know as anthropology converged on important conclusions about the unity and diversity of the human species in its interaction with the natural environment. . . . [It] admirably brings into focus those who made significant early advances in physical and cultural anthropology.”
—Evan F. Kuehn, The European Legacy
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Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of Atlantic World EmpireBenjamin M. Pietrenka “This is a monumental study that has cohesively woven together the complexities of eighteenth-century Moravian evangelization to the missionized communities of enslaved Africans and Indigenous groups. . . . The work exposes the racial biases and prejudices that starkly contradict the valued spiritual equality of Moravianism and instead reveal a proto-racist mission.”
—Winelle Kirton-Roberts, author of Created in Their Image: Evangelical Protestantism in Antigua and Barbados, 1834–1914
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The Lost Life and Work of Rahel SzalitKerry Wallach “This masterful historical reconstruction gives welcome due to a forgotten talent.”—Publishers Weekly | | | |
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