THE VOLCANO LOVER: Climate, Colonialism, and the Slave Trade in Raffles's History of Java (1817).

This essay revisits Montesquieu's racialized theories of climate in the context of the British Interregnum in Java, 1811-16 and the devastating eruption of Mt. Tambora. In his "History of Java" (1817), Stamford Raffles, would-be empire builder in Southeast Asia, positions himself as a revisionary re...

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Publicado en:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 33 - 56
Autor principal: WOOD, GILLEN D'ARCY
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Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/Winter2008
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