Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature /
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...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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