Blood waters : war, disease and race in the eighteenth-century British Caribbean /

Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021.
Colección:Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 39.
Temas:
1700-1799
War > History > 18th century.
Diseases > West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
Guerre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Maladies > Antilles britanniques > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Diseases.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
War.
West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
West Indies, British > Social conditions > 18th century.
West Indies, British > Race relations > 18th century.
West Indies > British West Indies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1. Lost in Translation? Tracking Robinson Crusoe Across the Eighteenth Century; 2. Vernon's Nemesis: The Caribbean Expeditions of 1741-42; 3. War, Race and Labour in Caribbean Waters, 1740-50; 4. Piracy and Slavery Aboard the Black Prince, 1760-77; 5. Rebellion, War and the Jamaican Conspiracy of 1776; 6. War, Race and Marginality: The Mosquito Coast in the Eighteenth Century; 7. Eighteenth-century Warfare in the Tropics: the Nicaraguan Expedition of 1780; 8. The Carbet and the Plantation: The Black Caribs of Saint Vincent; Postscript: The Caribbean Crucible at the Turn of the Century; ; Appendix: Black Risings, Conspiracies and Marronage, 1773-80; Bibliography

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