Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature
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- ISBN: 9781469669427 (softcover)
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ix, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Publisher: Williamsburg, VA : Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part I. The Nature of Slavery. 1 Strange Things, Occult Relations: Emblem and Narrative in Hans Sloane's: Voyage to ... Jamaica -- 2 Fatal Latitudes: The Poetics of West Indian "Improvement" in Mark Catesby's: Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands -- Part II. Reaping the Early Republic. 3 "The Itinerant Man": Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's Revolution, and the Fate of Atlantic Cosmopolitanism -- 4 "All the West-Indian Weeds": William Bartram's Travels and the Natural History of the Floridas -- 5 Notes on the State of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the Return of Epistolarity -- 6 The Birds of America and the Specter of Caribbean Accumulation -- Epilogue: Humboldt's Havana. |
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Subject: | Natural history -- West Indies Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century West Indies -- History -- 18th century |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | F 1609.5 .I26 2012 (Text) | 58500001126564 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |