Author: Segal, Daniel; editor:
Title: Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization
Description: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xix, 270 pp.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 6 papers. Includes: M.B. Campbell "Carnal Knowledge: Fracastoro's 'De Syphilis' & the Discovery of the New World"; P.T. Strong "Captivity in White & Red: Convergent Practice & Colonial Representation on the British Amerindian Frontier, 1606 -1736"; P. Linebaugh & M. Rediker "The Many- headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, & the Atlantic Working Class in the 18th Century"; D. Sayer "British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre, 1919-1920"; D. Prochaska "Tales of the City: Between Algérie Francaise and Algérie Algérienne"; James Boon "Cosmopolitan Moments: Echoey Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist".

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Social Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Colonial History, Colonialism, British Empire, Colony Colonies, Great Britain