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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)
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650  7 Enlightenment |2fast
650  7 French colonies |2fast
650  7 Intellectual life |2fast
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651  7 Caribbean Area |2fast
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