The Intimacies of Four Continents Silver punctuates the book with a

punctuates the book with a further-reaching interest in tradition and timelessness that looks beyond the scope of these events to the landscape

And this book’s writing machine includes testimonies from family members of the victims and fragments and fragments from news stories that provide accounts of all these absences

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The Intimacies of Four Continents Silver punctuates the book with aLisa Lowe In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo American empire, observing that