LEADER 03571cam a2200637 i 4500001 99131177096206421 005 20241010040617.0 008 230307t20232023enkab b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023005864 020 9781009360807 020 1009360809 020 9781009360838 |q(paperback) 020 1009360833 020 |z9781009360821 |q(epub) 035 (OCoLC)on1374489603 040 LBSOR |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dYDX 042 pcc 043 cc-----e-uk---e-fr--- 050 00 F2169 |b.S535 2023 082 00 972.9/03 |223/eng/20230331 100 1 Shelford, April, |eauthor. 245 12 A Caribbean enlightenment : |bintellectual life in the British and French colonial worlds, 1750-1792 / |cApril G. Shelford, American University, Washington DC. 264 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY : |bCambridge University Press, |c2023. 264 4 |c©2023 300 xvii, 386 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Ideas in context 520 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 651 0 Caribbean Area |xIntellectual life |y18th century. 650 0 Enlightenment |zCaribbean Area. 650 0 Colonists |zCaribbean Area |xIntellectual life |y18th century. 651 0 Great Britain |xColonies |zAmerica |xIntellectual life |y18th century. 651 0 France |xColonies |zAmerica |xIntellectual life |y18th century. 651 6 Caraïbes (Région) |xVie intellectuelle |y18e siècle. 650 6 Siècle des Lumières |zCaraïbes (Région) 650 7 British colonies |2fast 650 7 Enlightenment |2fast 650 7 French colonies |2fast 650 7 Intellectual life |2fast 651 7 America |2fast 651 7 Caribbean Area |2fast 648 7 1700-1799 |2fast 776 08 |iOnline version:Shelford, April. |tCaribbean enlightenment |dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 |z9781009360821 |w(DLC) 2023005865 830 0 Ideas in context 902 960717530 |wcopy |120241001162122.0 910 |cD0101mon |d3110-10 |gYBP 914 (OCoLC)on1374489603 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20241009 |eprocessed |f1374489603 960 |o1 |zUSD 961 |fSAK |m311010 |nCloth 980 19663971 |i130.00 982 |cf 984 20240726 |b125135 |cYBP-US