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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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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2012]
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Table des matières:
- 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" : Crevecoeur'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.