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 prose narration, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.
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Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
2022, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
in English
1469669420 9781469669427
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Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
2013, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
in English
0807838187 9780807838181
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Fatal revolutions: natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature
2012, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807835560 9780807835562
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Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
2012, University of North Carolina Press
in English
1469601923 9781469601922
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