Books by Lisa Voigt

Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power.

Demonstrates that tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. This work also demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions.