Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / Christopher P. Iannini.
Published / Created:
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Physical Description:
296 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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" : Crèvecoeur'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.
Subject Terms:
West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. | West Indies -- History -- 18th century. | Natural history -- West Indies. | Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Contributors:
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.