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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, Christopher Ianinni 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. The formal evolution of colonial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iannini, Christopher P. (Author)
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Subjects:
West Indies > Intellectual life > 18th century.
West Indies > History > 18th century.
Caribbean Area > In literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Natural history > West Indies.
Slavery > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Slavery in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Natural history.
Slavery.
Caribbean Area.
West Indies.
Naturgeschichte.
Sklaverei.
Kulturwandel.
Westindien.
Naturhistoria.
Slaveri > Historia.
Intellektuellt liv.
Västindien.
1700-1799
1700-talet
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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