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Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations
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Hardcover
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from Dartmouth College (November 3, 2015); titled "Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations"
9781611687897 | details & prices | 330 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $85.00
About: Winner of the 2016 American Studies Network Book PrizeIn Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781611687903
 
from Dartmouth College (November 3, 2015); titled "Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations"
9781611687903 | details & prices | 330 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.14 lbs | List price $40.00