A Caribbean Enlightenment
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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

About this book

Exploring the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean, A Caribbean Enlightenment recovers a neglected aspect of the region's history. Physicians to planters, merchants to publishing entrepreneurs were as inspired by ideologies of utility and improvement as their metropolitan counterparts, and they adapted 'enlightened' ideas and social practices to understand their place in the Atlantic World. Colonists collected botanical specimens for visiting naturalists and books for their personal libraries. They founded periodicals that created arenas for the discussion and debate of current problems. They picked up the pen to complain about their relationship with the home country. And they read to make sense of everything from parenting to personal salvation, to their new societies and the enslaved Africans on whom their prosperity depended. Ultimately, becoming 'enlightened' was a colonial identity that rejected metropolitan stereotypes of Caribbean degeneracy while validating the power to enslave on a cultural basis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Imprints page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Maps
  10. List of Tables
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Note on the Text
  13. List of Abbreviations
  14. Chapter 1 What Is a Caribbean Enlightenment?
  15. Part I Before Breadfruit: Natural History, Sociability, and Colonial Identity in Jamaica
  16. Part II Creating Enlightened Citizens: The Periodicals of Saint-Domingue in the 1760s
  17. Part III Tristram in the Tropics: or, Reading in Jamaica
  18. Part IV Cultivating Knowledge: Agricultural Enlightenment in the French Caribbean
  19. Chapter 13 Concluding Reflections
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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