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Ariel's ecology : plantations, personhood, and colonialism in the American tropics /
The author contends that on eighteenth-century American plantations, labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, this book expl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The author contends that on eighteenth-century American plantations, labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, this book explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and colonial metropoles. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816689002 0816689008 9781461941156 1461941156 1299916082 9781299916081 0816677271 9780816677276 081667728X 9780816677283 9781452947747 1452947740 |