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100	1		_aShelford, April G. _966463
245	1	2	_aA Caribbean Enlightenment : _bIntellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a1 online resource (406 pages)
336			_aText _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aComputermedien _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aOnline Resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aIdeas in Context Series ; _vv.Series Number 150
500			_aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505	0		_aCover -- 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.
520			_aExplores 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.
653			_aGreat Britain-Colonies-America-Intellectual life-18th century.
655			_aFernzugriff _9230
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aShelford, April G. _tA Caribbean Enlightenment _dCambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2023 _z9781009360807
830		0	_aIdeas in Context Series _925631
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7291624 _zVolltext
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