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American contact: objects of intercultural encounters and the boundaries of book history
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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[2024]
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English
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Introduction: The layered legibilities of intercultural encounters / Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman
Through the medium of the land: Serpent Mound within and without Ohio / Chadwick Allen
Writing-on-Stone and book history: recording the life-world of the Great Plains / Germaine Warkentin
Reading and misreading an eighth-century Maya stela / Megan E. O'Neil
The birth and life of the tlaquimilolli (sacred bundle) / Molly H. Bassett
Indigenous fabrics of empire in the sixteenth-century northern Andes / Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez
Alonso de Molina's grammar book in sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan / Marlena Petra Cravens
Writing and resistance in the conquest of Mexico's wake / Barbara E. Mundy
Intercultural encounters and the Codex Mexicanus / Lori Boornazian Diel
Bookmaking in Tlatelolco after the apocalypse / Alex Hidalgo
Chihoatenhwa's prayer: a Wendat-Jesuit print encounter from seventeenth-century New France / John H. Pollack
A Timucua epistle from seventeenth-century Florida / George Aaron Broadwell and Alejandra Dubcovsky
A contested Pennacook object in a seventeenth-century Puritan mission / Marie Balsley Taylor
Daniel Gookin's "Doings and sufferings" and the contradictions of the New England mission / David D. Hall and Adrian Chastain Weimer
And their words were reduced to writing: the materiality of torture transcripts in early eighteenth-century Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador) / Agnieszka Czeblakow
Christoph Saur's house: toward an anticolonial history of the settlement of Germantown / Bethany Wiggin
Slaveholding, seasoning, and the circulation of culinary knowledge in the Frankland family receipt book / Marissa Nicosia
A Jewish gravestone in eighteenth-century Charleston / Shari Rabin
The uses and reuses of ephemeral colonial print in Black households / Maria Ryan
A Guatemalan rulebook and the discipling of Catholic singing in the Spanish colonial world / Diane Oliva
An eighteenth-century Quaker poem and transatlantic abolitionism / Rachael Scarborough King with Cecily Duffie, Danielle Knox, Bishop Lawton, John Henry Merritt, Gabriell Montgomery, and Maria Carolina Sintura
Ephemeral texts in a semiliterate society: a subversive pasquinade in 1790 Caracas / Cristina Soriano
Disparate sources of an 1800 settlement negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Rachel B. Herrmann
Texas Mexican women and the War of Independence from Spain: memory, writing, forgetting / Raúl Coronado
Refuting procolonial discourse in postcolonial Haitian pamphlets / Chelsea Stieber
Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu's 1838 Arabic address in Jamaica / Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Monk on fire: imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas / Alexandra Kaloyanides
Afong Moy's ephemera and the ephemerality of the early Asian American archive / Xine Yao
Coloring outside the lines: the comic valentine as a queer and gender-variant object / Don James McLaughlin
Lady historian, Cuban exile, and German hatter: an immigrant story of Emma Willard's Compendio de la historia de los Estados Unidos as translated by Miguel T. Tolón / Jessica C. Linker
Chinese print in early California / Devin Fitzgerald
A letter from nineteenth-century Afro-Brazil / Isadora Moura Mota
Three ways of reading Protestant missionary marginalia / Sonia Hazard
Framing colonization for Mormon youth in the Juvenile instructor (1866) / Nathan Rees
Improvising indigenous geographies in the first atlas of Argentina, ca. 1870 / Brian Bockelman
Proud Raven: contesting the "Lincoln pole" / Emily L. Moore
Hides, hymns, quills, crosses: an embellished nineteenth-century Dakota-language hymnal / Daniel Radus
Yun Ch'i-ho's diary and Asian-American encounters in the American South, 1888-1893 / Chris Suh
Multiple literacies in Hawaiian sheet music / Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman
Dime novels and the creation of the Italian immigrant criminal / Nancy Caronia
Chauncey Yellow Robe's resistance in the early twentieth-century United States / Rachel Linnea Brown
Cataloging Mexican history in the age of pan-Americanism / Corinna Zeltsman
Scouting for the Victor Talking Machine Company: 1917 traveling recording ledgers from Latin America / Sergio Ospina Romero
Making books at the penitentiary: César Vallejo's Trilce / Carlos Aguirre
1930s U.S. encounters with Sierra Leonean dance dramas / Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis
Interwar Black internationalism and the creation of Unwritten history of slavery (1945) / Anne Ricculli
Inscribing Black Atlantic religions: an Afro-Cuban libreta from Havana / Martin A. Tsang
The circulations of a 1968 Haitian compas LP / Mathew R. Swiatlowski
Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and American Jewish heritage / Rachel B. Gross.
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