On the Rim of the Caribbean

On the Rim of the Caribbean
Title On the Rim of the Caribbean PDF eBook
Author Paul M. Pressly
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 386
Release 2013-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 0820335673

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DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div

The Creole Archipelago

The Creole Archipelago
Title The Creole Archipelago PDF eBook
Author Tessa Murphy
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 320
Release 2021-10-08
Genre History
ISBN 0812253388

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By approaching the colonial Caribbean as an interconnected region, Tessa Murphy recasts small islands as the site of broader contests over Indigenous dominion, racial belonging, economic development, and colonial subjecthood.

The Caribbean Before Columbus

The Caribbean Before Columbus
Title The Caribbean Before Columbus PDF eBook
Author William F. Keegan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 361
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 0190605251

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The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history based on the authors' 55 years of research in the Bahamas, Lesser and Greater Antilles. The presentation operates on multiple scales, and individual sites highlight specific issues. For the first time, complete histories are elucidated through an emphasis on cultural diversity.

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
Title Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean PDF eBook
Author Kristen Block
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 327
Release 2012-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 0820343757

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Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell’s plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados. Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community. Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean works in both a comparative and an integrative Atlantic world frame, drawing on archival sources from Spain, England, Barbados, Colombia, and the United States. It pushes the boundaries of how historians read silences in the archive, asking difficult questions about how self-censorship, anxiety, and shame have shaped the historical record. The book also encourages readers to expand their concept of religious history beyond a focus on theology, ideals, and pious exemplars to examine the communal efforts of pirates, smugglers, slaves, and adventurers who together shaped the Caribbean’s emerging moral economy.

A Colony of Citizens

A Colony of Citizens
Title A Colony of Citizens PDF eBook
Author Laurent Dubois
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 467
Release 2012-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 0807839027

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The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti. The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition
Title The Colonial Caribbean in Transition PDF eBook
Author Bridget Brereton
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 319
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780813016962

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This text is an examination of the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean, from the formal end of slavery to the middle of the 20th century. It focuses on social and ethnic groups, classes, gender interrelations, and the development of cultural and intellectual traditions.

Reproducing the British Caribbean

Reproducing the British Caribbean
Title Reproducing the British Caribbean PDF eBook
Author Juanita De Barros
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 296
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 146961605X

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Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery