Ariel's Ecology : Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics /

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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...

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Main Author: Allewaert, Monique (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Människans påverkan på naturen.
Humanekologi > historia.
Plantation life.
Human ecology.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Vie dans les plantations > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Aspect psychologique.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Plantation life > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Plantation life > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Psychological aspects.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Human beings > Southern States > Effect of nature on > History > 18th century.
Human ecology > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Human ecology > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Southern States.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780816689002

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