Matthew H. Pangborn's Books

This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and a growing consumerism. The tales thus express a complex self-reflection during a time when America’s exploitation of its energy resources and its engagement in a Franco-British world-system was transforming the daily life of its citizens. The genre of the oriental observer, this study argues, offers intriguing glimpses of a nation becoming strange in the eyes of its own inhabitants.

Book's by Matthew H. Pangborn

Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807

Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807

Gale Researcher Guide for: Slavery and Islam in The Algerine Captive

Gale Researcher Guide for: Slavery and Islam in The Algerine Captive

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