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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Published in:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 33 - 56
Main Author:	WOOD, GILLEN D'ARCY
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/Winter2008
Subjects:	Mount Tambora Eruption, 1815 Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826 Colonial administration Colonies History of Java, Indonesia Java (Indonesia) Mount Tambora (Indonesia) Indonesia Asia
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