Author: James Anthony FroudePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The English in the West Indies
Author: James Anthony FroudePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
History of the British West Indies
Author: Sir Alan Cuthbert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Author: Jenny ShawPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies.
Caribbeana
Author: Thomas W. KrisePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226453936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous region. Caribbeana offers invaluable period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture, and medicine. Highlights include several of the earliest protests against slavery; a superb ode by the Cambridge-educated Afro-Jamaican poet Francis Williams; James Grainger's extended georgic poem, The Sugar Cane; Frances Seymour's poignant tale of the Englishman Inkle who sells his Indian savior-lover Yarico into slavery; and several descriptions of the West Indies during the early years of settlement.
British West Indies Style
Author: Michael ConnorsPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847833078
Category : Architecture, British colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
British West Indies Style is a lavish account of the interiors, architecture, and lifestyle of the English colonial great houses and historic town houses in the Caribbean - from the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbados, and others, to the less-traveled islands of Bequia, British Guyana, and Montserrat. Close to fifty private homes are featured, with unique collections of antique, indigenous, and colonial furniture.
Caribbean Wars Untold
Author: Humphrey MetzgenPublisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The contribution made to Britain's wealth by its Caribbean colonies is well known. Far less known - indeed dismissively ignored - are the contributions made over the centuries by West Indians to Britain's hard-won military victories, most notably in the two World Wars. At last this injustice has been redressed. In this single volume, the authors tell the compelling story of the Caribbean during nearly five centuries of warfare from the time of Columbus to the present decade; of how West Indian consistently rallied to Britain's side in its many years of peril, volunteers for service in its armed forces or more recently also for work in its wartime factories and forests. The book spotlights the deeds and hardships of West Indian soldiers long engaged in Africa and the Middle East, and of the many who enlisted too in the air forces and merchant navies of the Allies. And it describes the ferocious German submarine campaign in Caribbean waters, the impact that it had on life in the islands and how it was defeated; and it defines also the consequences - social, political and economic - of the World Wars on both the British West Indies and the United Kingdom. Above all, this book is written as a tribute to every West Indian veteran of Britain's wars; also to foster in the generation now growing up an awareness of the sacrifices of their forebears and pride in their achievements.
Natural History of the West Indies
Author: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y ValdésPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Volume 32 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Tales from the West Indies
Author: Philip SherlockPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192750778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
These colourful tales from the West Indies and Guyana are full of wonderful characters, including Mr Snake, Monkey, Mancrow the bird of darkness, and, of course, Anasi the spider and his old adversary, Tiger.
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.
The British West Indies During the American Revolution
Author: Selwyn H. H. CarringtonPublisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This study deals with the economic and political impact of the American War of Independence (1775-1783) on the development of the British West Indian colonies. On the basis of extensive archival material and statistical data, the author demonstrates that the American Revolution not only cut off the British West Indies from its main source of food and plantation supplies, but also sparked a continuous fall in the production of sugar and other staples, leading to the economic decline of the sugar colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.