The Brink of Freedom Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

"Terrific. . . . Innovative." - Sean X. Goudie (American Literary History) "Kazanjian has constructed an extensively well-researched and theoretically complex study that develops a new approach to comparative scholarship, highlights new paths to archival research, and suggests new reading strategies that help us examine how non-European actors imagined a future defined by freedom, one of the principal tenets of modernity and of nineteenth-century liberalism." - Ty West (The Latin Americanist) "The Brink of Freedom is an innovative study that serves as a model for interdisciplinary research." - Christina C. Davidson (Hispanic American Historical Review)