Fatal Revolutions
Original title: Fatal revolutions
earliest edition we have, 2012 University of North Carolina Press, 2012 320 pages
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Ianinni 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. The formal evolution of colonial prose narration, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged nece...
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