| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Strange things, occult relations : emblem and narrative in Hans Sloane's Voyage to- Jamaica -- Fatal latitudes : the poetics of West Indian "improvement" in Mark Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands -- "The itinerant man" : Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's revolution, and the fate of Atlantic cosmopolitanism -- "All the West-Indian weeds" : William Bartram's Travels and the natural history of the Floridas -- Notes on the state of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the return of epistolarity -- The birds of America and the specter of Caribbean accumulation -- Humboldt's Havana. |
| Summary |
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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West Indies. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
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History. |
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Caribbean Area -- In literature.
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Caribbean Area. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Natural history -- West Indies.
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Natural history. |
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Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Plantation life in literature.
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Plantation life in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Iannini, Christopher P. Fatal revolutions. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012] 9780807835562 (DLC) 2011046725 (OCoLC)756594339 |
| ISBN |
9781469601922 (electronic book) |
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1469601923 (electronic book) |
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9780807835562 |
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0807835560 |
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