Fatal Revolutions : Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- PART I. THE NATURE OF SLAVERY -- 1 Strange Things, Occult Relations: Emblem and Narrative in Hans Sloane's: Voyage to . . . Jamaica -- 2 Fatal Latitudes: The Poetics of West Indian "Improvement" in Mark Catesby's: Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands -- PART II. REAPING THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- 3 "The Itinerant Man": Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's Revolution, and the Fate of Atlantic Cosmopolitanism -- 4 "All the West- Indian Weeds": William Bartram's Travels and the Natural History of the Floridas -- 5 Notes on the State of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the Return of Epistolarity -- 6 The Birds of America and the Specter of Caribbean Accumulation -- EPILOGUE: Humboldt's Havana -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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