Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 : Atlantic Archipelagos /

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This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morris, Michael (Lecturer in English) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 35.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Scots > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Scots > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Enlightenment > Scotland > Influence.
Écossais > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Écossais > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse > Influence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Enlightenment > Influence
International relations
Scots
Slavery
Scotland > Relations > Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area > Relations > Scotland.
Écosse > Relations > Caraïbes (Région)
Caraïbes (Région) > Relations > Écosse.
Caribbean Area
Scotland
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833
  • Theoretical orientations: transnationalism in the Atlantic world
  • Archipelagic poetics: pastoral, georgic, and the Scoto-British imperial vision, c.1740-1785
  • Robert Burns: slavery, freedom and abolition, 1786-1800
  • Not immediate but gradual: abolition to emancipation, 1800-1833
  • Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean
  • Joseph Knight: history, fiction, memory.

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