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003			OCoLC
005			20240726104948.0
008			131031s2012 ncua ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aJSTOR _beng _erda _epn _cJSTOR _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOTZ _dYDXCP _dNT
020			_a9781469601922 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aF1609 _b.F383 2012
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aIannini, Christopher P. _e1
245	1	0	_aFatal revolutions : _bnatural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / _cChristopher P. Iannini.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : _billustrations (some color).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aStrange things, occult relations : emblem and narrative in Hans Sloane's Voyage to- Jamaica -- _tFatal latitudes : the poetics of West Indian "improvement" in Mark Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands -- _t"The itinerant man" : Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's revolution, and the fate of Atlantic cosmopolitanism -- _t"All the West-Indian weeds" : William Bartram's Travels and the natural history of the Floridas -- _tNotes on the state of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the return of epistolarity -- _tThe birds of America and the specter of Caribbean accumulation -- _tHumboldt's Havana.
520	8		_aDrawing 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 not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNatural history _zWest Indies.
650		0	_aSlavery _zWest Indies _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aSlavery in literature.
650		0	_aPlantation life in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965150&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hF. _m2012 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell