Caribbean enlightenment, a: intellectual life in the british and french colonial worlds, 1750–1792
Auteur :
Shelford, April G.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009360807
Date de publication :
5 oct. 2023
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,9 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
740 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Explores 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.