The Usufructuary Ethos Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Drew, Erin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4580-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.50 |
Book Description:
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Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it.
Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it.