Andrea Tinnemeyer's book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a

The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narrati

The War in Words is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety

It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Fred

Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation,