{"product_id":"a-caribbean-enlightenment-intellectual-life-in-the-british-and-french-colonial-worlds-1750-1792-paperback-softback-9781009360838","title":"A Caribbean Enlightenment; Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009360838","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Caribbean Enlightenment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIntellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the Enlightenment in the brutal slave societies of the colonial French and British Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eApril G. Shelford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009360838, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e406 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.585 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'April G. Shelford's engaging and well-written book … is one that scholars of the French and British Caribbean and Atlantic world will want on their shelves.' Matthew Mulcahy, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExploring 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. What is a Caribbean enlightenment?\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Before Breadfruit: Natural History, Sociability, and Colonial Identity in Jamaica: Introduction to Part I\u003cbr\u003e 2. Jamaica's Patrick Browne\u003cbr\u003e 3. Birds of a feather\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part I\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Creating Enlightened Citizens: The Periodicals of Saint-Domingue in the 1760s: Introduction to Part II\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making the Affiches, making Americans\u003cbr\u003e 5. American exceptionalism, political economy and the postwar order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue\u003cbr\u003e 6. A slave named Voltaire\u003cbr\u003e or, gender and the making American taste\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part II\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Tristram in the Tropics: or, Reading in Jamaica: Introduction to Part III\u003cbr\u003e 7. Whence, whither, and which books?\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Truth hard to be discovered': The commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood\u003cbr\u003e 9. Containing the Overflowing Fountain of His Brain: Robert Long's 'Reflections'\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part III\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Cultivating Knowledge: Agricultural Enlightenment in the French Caribbean: Introduction to Part IV\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Je sçais par une longue experience …'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Agricultural enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue press\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Enlightened planter\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part IV\u003cbr\u003e 13. Concluding reflections\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475092631832,"sku":"9781009360838","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009360838i.jpg?v=1785804745","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-caribbean-enlightenment-intellectual-life-in-the-british-and-french-colonial-worlds-1750-1792-paperback-softback-9781009360838","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}