WAR 2:
Richard Ligon’s A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
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KEYWORDS TO CONSIDER
+ travel writing
+ caribbean
+ imperialism
+ 17th century travel writing
+ 17th century travel writing and grand tour
+exile
+early modern travel narrative
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SCHOLARLY WORKS TO CONSIDER
+Adams, Percy G. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel. The University Press of Kentucky, 2014. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=938650&site=eds-live.
+Helmers, Marguerite H. The Traveling and Writing Self. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=539869&site=eds-live.
+Rebekah, Mitsein. "Humanism and the Ingenious Machine: Richard Ligon’s True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados." no. 1, 2016, p. 95. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1353/jem.2016.0009. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/610532?
+Lee, Heidi Oberholtzer. “Turtle Tears and Captive Appetites: The Problem of White Desire in the Caribbean.” Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 35, no. 3, 2005, pp. 307–325. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30225804.
+Monga, Luigi. “‘Doom'd to Wander’: Exile, Memoirs, and Early Modern Travel Narrative.” Annali D'Italianistica, vol. 20, 2002, pp. 173–186. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24009760.
+Morgan, Jennifer L. “‘Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, 1997, pp. 167–192. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2953316.
+O'Callaghan, Evelyn. “(Ex)Tending the Boundaries: Early Travel Writing by Women and the Construction of the ‘West Indies.’” Caribbean Studies, vol. 27, no. 3/4, 1994, pp. 255–277. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25613259. (USEFUL FOR DEFINITIONS OF KINDS OF TRAVEL WRITING)
+Smith, David Chan. "Useful Knowledge, Improvement, and the Logic of Capital in Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of Barbados." Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 78, no. 4, Oct. 2017, pp. 549-570. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=125778968&site=eds-live.
+Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's HISTORY by Anthony Lion
PRIMARY SOURCES
1650s CONDITIONS IN WEST INDIES
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH: BRITISH TRAVEL WRITING
OTHER SOURCES
RICHARD LIGON IN BRITISH FOOD MAGAZINE
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