A Caribbean Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781009360807 / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Washington DC) Shelford April G. (American University

Opis

Explores the Enlightenment in the brutal slave societies of the colonial French and British Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution.

Spis treści

1. What is a Caribbean enlightenment?; Part I. Before Breadfruit: Natural History, Sociability, and Colonial Identity in Jamaica: Introduction to Part I; 2. Jamaica's Patrick Browne; 3. Birds of a feather; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Creating Enlightened Citizens: The Periodicals of Saint-Domingue in the 1760s: Introduction to Part II; 4. Making the Affiches, making Americans; 5. American exceptionalism, political economy and the postwar order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue; 6. A slave named Voltaire; or, gender and the making American taste; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Tristram in the Tropics: or, Reading in Jamaica: Introduction to Part III; 7. Whence, whither, and which books?; 8. 'Truth hard to be discovered': The commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood; 9. Containing the Overflowing Fountain of His Brain: Robert Long's 'Reflections'; Conclusion to Part III; Part IV. Cultivating Knowledge: Agricultural Enlightenment in the French Caribbean: Introduction to Part IV; 10. 'Je sçais par une longue experience …'; 11. Agricultural enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue press; 12. The Enlightened planter; Conclusion to Part IV; 13. Concluding reflections; Index.