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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 What Is a Caribbean Enlightenment? -- Part I Before Breadfruit: Natural History, Sociability, and Colonial Identity in Jamaica -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 2 Jamaica's Patrick Browne -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 4 Making the Affiches, Making Americans -- Chapter 5 American Exceptionalism, Political Economy, and the Postwar Order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue -- Chapter 6 A Slave Named Voltaire -- or, Gender and the Making of American Taste -- Conclusion to Part II -- Part III Tristram in the Tropics: or, Reading in Jamaica -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 7 Whence, Whither, and Which Books? -- Chapter 8 ''Truth Hard to be Discovered'': The Commonplace Books of Thomas Thistlewood -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 10 ''Je sçais par une longue expérience'' -- Chapter 11 Agricultural Enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue Press -- Chapter 12 The Enlightened Planter -- Conclusion to Part IV -- Chapter 13 Concluding Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.

Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.