Author: Howard A. FergusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montserrat
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
History of Alliouagana
Author: Howard A. FergusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montserrat
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies
Author: John F. CherryPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789253918
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory. It has suffered greatly in recent times, first from the devastations of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and since 1995 from the still-ongoing eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano that has caused two-thirds of the island’s population to emigrate and left half the island a dangerous exclusion zone. Archaeological research here began only in the late 1970s, but work over the past four decades has now made it possible to present an archaeological history of Montserrat, from the earliest known traces of human activity on the island about 5,000 years ago to the present. This book draws on all the available archaeological evidence (including that from the co-authors’ own island-wide survey and excavation project since 2010), as well as newly available archival documents, to trace this little island’s long history and heritage. This is not the story of an isolated and remote island: Montserrat is shown rather to be a place intricately connected to the flows of people and goods that have travelled between islands and across the Atlantic at various points in time, both Amerindian and historical. Despite its small size and seeming irrelevance, Montserrat has in fact always been networked into regional and global systems of connectivity. An underlying theme of this volume is resilience. It presents insights from the archaeological and documentary evidence on how the island’s inhabitants have coped with often adverse conditions throughout the course of its history – hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, slavery, disease, invasions, and impoverishment – all while remaining proudly connected to heritage that celebrates the accomplishments of island residents.
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
Author: Richard AllsoppPublisher:
ISBN: 9789766401450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
If the Irish Ran the World
Author: Donald H. AkensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773516301
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
What would have happened if the Irish had conquered and controlled a vast empire? Would they have been more humane rulers than the English? Using the Caribbean island of Montserrat as a case study of "Irish" imperialism, Donald Akenson addresses these questions and provides a detailed history of the island during its first century as a European colony.
Before the volcano
Author: Jonathan SkinnerPublisher: Arawak Publications
ISBN: 9789768189219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Slave Women in the New World
Author: Marietta MorrisseyPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean from 1600 through the mid 1800s. Morrissey examines a wide spectrum of experience among Caribbean slave women, including their work at home, in the fields, and as domestics; their roles as wives and mothers; their health, sexuality, and fertility; and their decline in status with the advent of industrialization and the abolition of slavery. Life for these women, Morrissey shows, was much more hazardous, brutal, and fragmented than it was for their counterparts in the American South. These women were in a constant, dynamic struggle with men—both masters and fellow slaves—over the foundations of their social experience. This experience was defined both by their status as slaves and by gender inequality. On the one hand, their slave status gradually robbed them of their domain—the household economy—and created a kind of perverse equality in which slave women—like slave men—became “units of agricultural labor.” One the other hand, slave women were denied the access that slave men eventually gained to skilled agricultural work. The result of this gender inequality, as Morrissey convincingly demonstrates, was a further erosion of the status and authority of slave women within their own culture. Morrissey’s study, which addresses significant issues in women’s history and black history, will go far toward reshaping our perceptions of slave life in the new world.
The Journal of Caribbean History
Author: Law, Justice, and Empire
Author: Bridget BreretonPublisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766400354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Colonial Career of John Gorrie is a biographical study of Sir John Gorrie, a Scottish lawyer, who served as a judge and as chief justice in several multi-racial British colonies (Mauritius, Fiji, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago) in the second half of the nineteenth century. Holding radical political and social views, especially a conviction that persons of all ethnic and class backgrounds should enjoy equal justice under the British crown, he was a controversial jurist who inspired both bitter opposition from colonial elites and intense admiration from the 'subject races' in each place he served...A maverick official of the British Crown, Gorrie tried to use his judicial office to secure justice and protection for ex-slaves, indentured labourers, indigenous peoples and other nonwhite groups in the empire. Law, Justice and Empire is an original contribution to the comparative history of the nineteenth century British empire, as well as to the history of the Caribbean, Mauritius and Fiji in that period. It extends our understanding of the empire and how it was administered.
The Irish in Us
Author: Diane NegraPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822337409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
DIVA colleciton that looks at how Irishness has become a discursive commodity within popular culture./div
The Jumbies’ Playing Ground
Author: Robert Wyndham NichollsPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617036110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A study of the carnival traditions that created "whole theater" folk pageants