Publications
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Black Cosmopolitans
(2020)
"Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike ...
Navigating Neutrality
(2021)
History of the Americas;Naval forces and warfare;General and world history;Central / national / federal government
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
(2018-10-02)
The first book-length study of gossip’s place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice—a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the ...
A World of Disorderly Notions
(2020)
"From Jonathan Swift to Washington Irving, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes’s notoriously mad comic hero as a model. A World of Disorderly Notions examines ...
The Weaker Sex in War
(2022)
American Civil War;Virginia;Gender History;Confederate Nationalism;Citizenship;southern women;female enslavers;Richmond Bread Riot;Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association;Ladies Defense Association;Home for Needy Confederate Women
Before American History
(2022)
Before American History juxtaposes Mexico City’s famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the ...