Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / Christopher P. Iannini.

Drawing 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...

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Main Author: Iannini, Christopher P. (Author)
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
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