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At Kingdom's Edge : The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject /

"Jeronimy Clifford's life is used as a case study for how life in a conquered colony shaped what it meant to be English outside of England. The afterlife of Clifford's case shows the salience of his story in new contexts and the unresolved tensions about the meanings of colonial subje...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Selwood, Jacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. English subjecthood at kingdom's edge
  • Creating an English Suriname (1651-1667)
  • Staying English in Dutch Suriname (1667-1687)
  • The glorious revolution in Suriname (1688-1695)
  • Colonial subjecthood in England and the Netherlands: metropolitan imperial culture and Clifford's quest for restitution (1696-1737)
  • The many afterlives of Jeronimy Clifford and the meanings of colonial English subjecthood in the eighteenth century (1737-1780).