Emergent WorldsReimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time Emergent Worlds re locates nineteenth century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern eracolonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent