A Caribbean Enlightenment

1. What is a Caribbean enlightenment?; Part I. Before Breadfruit: Natural History, Sociability, and Colonial Identity in Jamaica: Introduction to Part I; 2. Jamaica's Patrick Browne; 3. Birds of a feather; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Creating Enlightened Citizens: The Periodicals of Saint-Domingue in the 1760s: Introduction to Part II; 4. Making the Affiches, making Americans; 5. American exceptionalism, political economy and the postwar order in the Journal de Saint-Domingue; 6. A slave named Voltaire; or, gender and the making American taste; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Tristram in the Tropics: or, Reading in Jamaica: Introduction to Part III; 7. Whence, whither, and which books?; 8. 'Truth hard to be discovered': The commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood; 9. Containing the Overflowing Fountain of His Brain: Robert Long's 'Reflections'; Conclusion to Part III; Part IV. Cultivating Knowledge: Agricultural Enlightenment in the French Caribbean: Introduction to Part IV; 10. 'Je scais par une longue experience ...'; 11. Agricultural enlightenment in the Saint-Domingue press; 12. The Enlightened planter; Conclusion to Part IV; 13. Concluding reflections; Index.