© Columbia University Press
The British Slave Trade and Public Memory
February, 2006
Paper, 224 pages, 9 b/w half-tones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13715-7
$30.00
/ £18.00
Cloth, 224 pages, 9 b/w half-tones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13714-0
$82.50
/ £44.00
"This new perspective enhances the vision of a tolerant, diverse, multiethnic society. Recommended." — Choice
"The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, is a welcome and thought-provoking study." — James Walvin, The Public Historian
"Through this creative melding of museum, literary, and performance studies Wallace considers the responsibilities historical pedagogy entails." — Deidre Lynch, Studies in English Literature
"Historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and critically perceptive, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace's engagingly written The British Slave Trade and Public Memory is a remarkable achievement in cultural criticism. Only someone who combines Wallace's knowledge of the eighteenth century with her critical acumen could show so convincingly why and how Britain's dominant role in the slave trade two hundred years ago informs British material and textual culture at the turn of the twenty-first century." — Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, editor of Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
"With her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century British history and culture, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace ventures into the present to examine ways in which contemporary Britons are dealing with Britain's history of slave trading and slave ownership. This project is unique in its imaginative rethinking of disciplinary boundaries and historical periods. With her analysis and evaluation of these various kinds of social practices and popular culture, Wallace enters into public debates current in Britain about nation, identity, and social justice that are crucial to Britain's attempt to see itself as a multiethnic society. " — Beth Tobin, Arizona State University, author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820
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