April G. Shelford (Washington DC American University)

Broschiertes Buch

A Caribbean Enlightenment

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

April G. Shelford is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of History at American University, Washington, DC. She won the Selma Forkosch prize for best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas in 2002. She is the recipient of fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. For two years she was Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, which inspired the research for this project.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781009360838
• ISBN-10: 1009360833
• Artikelnr.: 72488937