A Caribbean enlightenment: intellectual life in the British and French colonial worlds, 1750-1792

Exploring the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean, A Caribbean Enlightenment recovers a neglected aspect of the region's history. Physicians to planters, merchants to publishing entrepren...

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1. Verfasser: Shelford, April (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Exploring the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean, A Caribbean Enlightenment recovers a neglected aspect of the region's history. Physicians to planters, merchants to publishing entrepreneurs were as inspired by ideologies of utility and improvement as their metropolitan counterparts, and they adapted 'enlightened' ideas and social practices to understand their place in the Atlantic World. Colonists collected botanical specimens for visiting naturalists and books for their personal libraries. They founded periodicals that created arenas for the discussion and debate of current problems. They picked up the pen to complain about their relationship with the home country. And they read to make sense of everything from parenting to personal salvation, to their new societies and the enslaved Africans on whom their prosperity depended. Ultimately, becoming 'enlightened' was a colonial identity that rejected metropolitan stereotypes of Caribbean degeneracy while validating the power to enslave on a cultural basis
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What is a Caribbean enlightenment? -- Jamaica's Patrick Browne -- Birds of a feather -- Making the Affiches, making Americans -- American exceptionalism, political economy & the postwar order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue -- A slave named Voltaire : or, gender & the making of American taste -- Whence, whither, and which books? -- "Truth hard to be discovered" : the commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood -- Containing the overflowing fountain of his brain : Robert Long's "Reflections" -- Je s cais par une longue experience..." -- Agricultural enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue press -- The enlightened planter -- Concluding reflections
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 386 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009360821
DOI:10.1017/9781009360821

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