Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference /

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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 subje...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Jenny, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Colección:Early American places.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery > West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
Catholics > West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
Irish > West Indies, British > Ethnic identity.
Irish > West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
West Indies, British > Ethnic relations > History > 17th century.
West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "An Heathenishe Brutish and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of People" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic
  • "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control
  • "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations
  • "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith
  • "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English Domination
  • "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.

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