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Book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana  1623 1667

Download or read book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1623 1667 written by Vincent Todd Harlow and published by London s.n.. This book was released on 1924 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana  1623 1667

Download or read book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1623 1667 written by Vincent Todd Harlow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana  1623 1667

Download or read book Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1623 1667 written by V. T. Harlow and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1925.

Book Caribbean Exchanges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-03-24
  • ISBN : 0807888834
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Caribbean Exchanges written by Susan Dwyer Amussen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.

Book British Maritime Enterprise in the New World

Download or read book British Maritime Enterprise in the New World written by Peter T. Bradley and published by Peter Bradley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of the voyages of English navigators, from the pioneers of the late 15th century to the scientific expeditions of the early 19th century, not only in South American waters, but also the Caribbean and North America.

Book Remnant Stones

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  • Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
  • Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
  • Release : 2012-02-15
  • ISBN : 0878203729
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Remnant Stones written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century..

Book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seasons of Misery

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  • Author : Kathleen Donegan
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0812245407
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Seasons of Misery written by Kathleen Donegan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature.

Book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Book Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Download or read book Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research written by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution  1640 1661

Download or read book The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution 1640 1661 written by Carla Gardina Pestana and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of freeborn English men, making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.

Book Handbook of South American Indians  The circum Caribbean tribes

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians The circum Caribbean tribes written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dutch Atlantic Connections  1680 1800

Download or read book Dutch Atlantic Connections 1680 1800 written by Gert Oostindie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.

Book Power  Political Economy  and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World

Download or read book Power Political Economy and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World written by Christopher DeCorse and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression. This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied local economic and political systems, and diverse social formations that predated European contact. These preexisting systems articulated with the expanding European economy and, in doing so, shaped its emergence. Moving beyond the confines of national or Atlantic histories to examine regional systems and their historical trajectories on a global scale, the studies within this volume draw examples from the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, North America, South America, Africa, and South Asia. While the contributions are rooted in substantive studies from different world areas, their overarching aim is to negotiate between global and local frames, revealing how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied and, often, non-European in their expression.

Book Empire at the Periphery

Download or read book Empire at the Periphery written by Christian J. Koot and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the trade networks that connected the British and Dutch colonies in the Atlantic and how they formed a central part of the commercial activity in the early Atlantic World.

Book If the Irish Ran the World

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  • Author : Donald H. Akenson
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0773516301
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book If the Irish Ran the World written by Donald H. Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would have happened if the Irish had conquered and controlled a vast empire? Would they have been more humane rulers than the English? Using the Caribbean island of Montserrat as a case study of "Irish" imperialism, Donald Akenson addresses these questions and provides a detailed history of the island during its first century as a European colony.

Book Laboring Women

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Morgan
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-09-12
  • ISBN : 0812206371
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Laboring Women written by Jennifer L. Morgan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses became intertwined in the English colonies. Beginning with the ideological foundations of racial slavery in early modern Europe, Laboring Women traverses the Atlantic, exploring the social and cultural lives of women in West Africa, slaveowners' expectations for reproductive labor, and women's lives as workers and mothers under colonial slavery. Challenging conventional wisdom, Morgan reveals how expectations regarding gender and reproduction were central to racial ideologies, the organization of slave labor, and the nature of slave community and resistance. Taking into consideration the heritage of Africans prior to enslavement and the cultural logic of values and practices recreated under the duress of slavery, she examines how women's gender identity was defined by their shared experiences as agricultural laborers and mothers, and shows how, given these distinctions, their situation differed considerably from that of enslaved men. Telling her story through the arc of African women's actual lives—from West Africa, to the experience of the Middle Passage, to life on the plantations—she offers a thoughtful look at the ways women's reproductive experience shaped their roles in communities and helped them resist some of the more egregious effects of slave life. Presenting a highly original, theoretically grounded view of reproduction and labor as the twin pillars of female exploitation in slavery, Laboring Women is a distinctive contribution to the literature of slavery and the history of women.