Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of EmpireBlackmore analyses narratives of the Portuguese Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through study of contemporary accounts of shipwrecks. |
Contents
A SHIPWRECKFUL SHIP I | 1 |
THE DISCOURSE OF THE SHIPWRECK | 28 |
MAROONINGS | 62 |
GOING UNDER | 89 |
AN ILLUSTRIOUS SCHOOL OF CAUTION | 108 |
NOTES | 123 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 157 |
PERMISSIONS | 177 |
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Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire Josiah Blackmore Limited preview - 2002 |
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