TY  - GEN
T1  - Tropical despotisms : enlightened reform in the French Caribbean
A1  - Harvey, David Allen, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1423505008
AB  - "Tropical Despotisms examines efforts to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue in France's Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years' War and the Revolution. Following France's humiliating defeat at the hands of the British, a loose coalition of frustrated and enlightened reformers hoped to promote imperial regeneration in order to restore France's wounded national pride, stabilize and strengthen the Antillean colonies, and bind them more closely to the metropole"--
OP  - 293
CN  - JV1816 .H37 2024
SN  - 9781501776694
SN  - 150177669X
SN  - 9781501776687
SN  - 1501776681
SN  - 9781501776670
KW  - Enlightenment.
KW  - France : Colonies : America : Administration.
KW  - France : Colonies : America : History : 18th century.
KW  - West Indies, French : History : 18th century.
KW  - West Indies, French : Relations : France.
KW  - France : Relations : West Indies, French.
KW  - Siècle des Lumières.
KW  - Antilles françaises : Relations : France.
KW  - Antilles françaises : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
KW  - HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -