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Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Simon Gikandi
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Simon Gikandi
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. This book demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined.
392 pages, 73 halftones.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 27, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780691160979 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Dimensions | 159 × 249 × 27 mm · 596 g |
Language | English |