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VERY RARE 1888 CARIBBEAN JAMAICA DOMINICA CUBA HAITI
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VERY RARE 1888 CARIBBEAN JAMAICA DOMINICA CUBA HAITI Description: From 1888, a very rare first UK edition, The English in the West Indies (Caribbean), Or, the Bow of Ulysses. By James Anthony Froude, published in London by Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Bound in blue cloth, gilt titles, 9x6 inches, with 9 full page prints, of Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad, Havana, Cuba and Port au Prince, Haiti. A neat little bookstore label, Antiquariat C.P.J. Van der Peet, Amsterdam, a fancy bookstore. Solid condition and very scarce. James Anthony Froude (23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. Following completion of controversial writings about Thomas Carlyle, Froude turned to travel, particularly through the British colonies, visiting South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the West Indies. From these travels, he produced two books, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) and The English in the West Indies (1888), which mixed personal anecdotes with Froude's thoughts on the British Empire. Froude intended, with these writings, "to kindle in the public mind at home that imaginative enthusiasm for the Colonial idea of which his own heart was full.". However, these books caused great controversy, stimulating rebuttals and the coining of the term Froudacity (coined by Afro-Trinidadian intellectual John Jacob Thomas, who used it as the title of his book-length critique of The English in the West Indies).
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