African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason

by Helena Woodard

The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain. It was a period marked by expeditions to the New World, Africa, and the Orient, and these voyages were reflected in the travel literature of the era. It was also a period in which seventeenth-century empiricism and the scientific method became dominant, and in which society became increasingly secular. Fundamental to the eighteenth-century worldview was the notion of the Great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031330680X
• ISBN13: 9780313306808
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"