Review Of Lisa Lowe's Intimacies Of Four Continents

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Lisa Lowe’s book “Intimacies of Four Continents” attempts to escape the traditional historiography that usually has an Anglo-American perception of history. The recently published book makes a wake-up call to traditional scholarship that tend to prioritize the self-centered view of every matter, even foreign affairs, interpreting historical facts according to this Anglo-American narrow perspective and principles. The scenery of the Intimacies of Four Continents is the European expansion and the Atlantic trade focusing on slave trade followed by the Chinese indentured workers transportation to the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Lowe argues that scholarship fail to address the Chinese indentured workers that,