| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Ideas in context |
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Ideas in context.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2023) |
| Subject |
Enlightenment -- Caribbean Area
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Colonists -- Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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British colonies
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Enlightenment
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French colonies
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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France -- Colonies -- America -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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| Subject |
America
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Caribbean Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023005865 |
| ISBN |
9781009360821 |
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1009360825 |
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9781009360814 |
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1009360817 |
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