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Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / Christopher P. Iannini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iannini, Christopher P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- West Indies--Intellectual life--18th century.
- West Indies.
- West Indies--History--18th century.
- Natural history--West Indies.
- Natural history.
- Slavery--West Indies--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Strange things, occult relations : emblem and narrative in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamace
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835562
- 0807835560
- OCLC:
- 756594339
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