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Subject(s)

• Caribbean Area—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Enlightenment—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Colonists—Caribbean Area—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies—America—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• France—Colonies—America—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]

Series

Ideas in context [More in this series]

Summary note

"Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• What is a Caribbean enlightenment?
• Jamaica's Patrick Browne
• Birds of a feather
• Making the Affiches, making Americans
• American exceptionalism, political economy & the postwar order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue
• A slave named Voltaire : or, gender & the making of American taste
• Whence, whither, and which books?
• "Truth hard to be discovered" : the commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood
• Containing the overflowing fountain of his brain : Robert Long's "Reflections"
• Je sçais par une longue experience..."
• Agricultural enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue press
• The enlightened planter
• Concluding reflections.

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ISBN

• 9781009360807
• 1009360809
• 9781009360838 ((paperback))
• 1009360833

LCCN

2023005864

OCLC

1374489603

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