03671nam 2200673 450 991082468610332120211101174506.0979-88-908425-0-30-8078-3818-71-4696-0192-3(CKB)3170000000065475(EBL)4321970(SSID)ssj0000870332(PQKBManifestationID)11435612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870332(PQKBWorkID)10818752(PQKB)11398030(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245603(OCoLC)861793291(MdBmJHUP)muse48654(Au-PeEL)EBL4321970(CaPaEBR)ebr11149756(CaONFJC)MIL929224(MiAaPQ)EBC4321970(EXLCZ)99317000000006547520111115h20122012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFatal revolutions natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature /Christopher P. IanniniChapel Hill :Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (313 p.)Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-3556-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Introduction; PART I. THE NATURE OF SLAVERY; 1 Strange Things, Occult Relations: Emblem and Narrative in Hans Sloane's: Voyage to . . . Jamaica; 2 Fatal Latitudes: The Poetics of West Indian "Improvement" in Mark Catesby's: Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands; PART II. REAPING THE EARLY REPUBLIC; 3 "The Itinerant Man": Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's Revolution, and the Fate of Atlantic Cosmopolitanism4 "All the West- Indian Weeds": William Bartram's Travels and the Natural History of the Floridas5 Notes on the State of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the Return of Epistolarity; 6 The Birds of America and the Specter of Caribbean Accumulation; EPILOGUE: Humboldt's Havana; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; YDrawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book 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. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaNatural historyWest IndiesSlaveryWest IndiesHistory18th centuryWest IndiesIntellectual life18th centuryWest IndiesHistory18th centuryNatural historySlaveryHistory972.9Iannini Christopher P.1639554Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824686103321Fatal revolutions3982603UNINA