Inky Scraps
Maya Jasanoff: ‘Atlantic Families’, 5 August 2010
Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later 18th Century
by Sarah Pearsall.
Oxford, 294 pp., £61, November 2008,978 0 19 953299 5 Show More
by Sarah Pearsall.
Oxford, 294 pp., £61, November 2008,
“... world in motion’, as Bernard Bailyn put it, defined by migration and circulation. Sarah Pearsall’s Atlantic Families investigates what she describes as the ‘Shiva-like quality of the Atlantic world, its ability to destroy as well as to build’ human relationships across space. For the subjects of ... ”
