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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

By: April G. Shelford

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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

By: April G. Shelford

Explores the Enlightenment in the brutal slave societies of the colonial French and British Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution.

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New Worlds, Ancient Texts

By: Anthony Grafton,April Shelford,Nancy G. Siraisi

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New Worlds, Ancient Texts

By: Anthony Grafton,April Shelford,Nancy G. Siraisi

On encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turned out otherwise... What could I do then but laugh at Aristotle's Meteorology and his philosophy?" Acosta's experience echoes that of his fellow travelers to the New World, and it is this experience, with its profound effect on Western culture, that Anthony Grafton charts. Describing an era of exploration that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. The intellectual shift mapped out here, a movement from book learning to empirical knowledge, did not take place easily or quickly, and Grafton presents it in all its drama and complexity. What he recounts is in effect a war of ideas fought, sometimes unwittingly by mariners, scientists, publishers, scholars, and rulers over one hundred fifty years. He shows us explorers from Cortes and Columbus to Scaliger and Munster, laden with ideas gathered from ancient and medieval texts, in their encounters with the world at large. In colorful vignettes, firsthand accounts, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional images and notions of the world beyond Europe. The fundamental cultural revolution that Grafton documents still reverberates in our time. By taking us into thisbattle of books versus facts, a conflict that has shaped global views for centuries, Grafton allows us to re-experience and understand the Renaissance as it continues to this day.

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Transforming the Republic of Letters

Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

By: April Shelford

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Transforming the Republic of Letters

Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

By: April Shelford

A multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during theRenaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however, it confronted fundamental challenges that influenced its transition to the more public, inclusive, and vernacular discourse of the Enlightenment. Transforming the Republic of Letters is a cultural and intellectual history that chronicles this transition to "modernity" from the perspective of the internationally renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Under Shelford's direction, Huet guides us into the intensely social intellectual worldof salons, scientific academies, and literary academies, while his articulate critiques illumine a combative world of Cartesians versus anti-Cartesians, ancients versus moderns, Jesuits versus Jansenists, and salonnières versus humanist scholars. Transforming the Republic of Letters raises questions of critical importance in Huet's era, and our own, about defining, sharing, and controlling access to knowledge. April G. Shelford is Assistant Professor in the History Department at American University, Washington, D.C.

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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

By: April G. Shelford

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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

By: April G. Shelford

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.

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1009360795

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Growing Up in the Ice Age

Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children

By: April Nowell

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Growing Up in the Ice Age

Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children

By: April Nowell

In prehistoric societies children comprised 40–65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools, and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children, and adolescents around them. Growing Up in the Ice Age is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering these ‘invisible’ children visible, readers will gain a new understanding of the Paleolithic period as a whole, and in doing so will learn how children have contributed to the biological and cultural entities we are today.

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Oxbow Books

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1789252954

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New Worlds, Ancient Texts

By: Anthony Grafton,April Shelford,Nancy G. Siraisi

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A Caribbean Enlightenment

Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

By: April G. Shelford

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Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

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Explores the Enlightenment in the brutal slave societies of the colonial French and British Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution.

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Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

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Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792

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Transforming the Republic of Letters

Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

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Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

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A Caribbean Enlightenment

A Caribbean Enlightenment

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

Transforming the Republic of Letters

Transforming the Republic of Letters

A Caribbean Enlightenment

A Caribbean Enlightenment

Growing Up in the Ice Age

Growing Up in the Ice Age

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

A Caribbean Enlightenment

A Caribbean Enlightenment

A Caribbean Enlightenment

A Caribbean Enlightenment

Transforming the Republic of Letters

Transforming the Republic of Letters

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