Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780–1870
«Review of the hardback: '… undertaking very demanding archival work, and thus reconstructing the world behind the words of these many writers and speakers, Tim Watson has done a service for scholars of the Atlantic world.' Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst»
Tim Watson challenges the idea that Caribbean colonies in the nineteenth century were outposts of empire easily relegated to the realm of tropical romance while the real story took place in Britain. Analyzing pamphlets, newspapers, estate papers, trial transcripts, and missionary correspondence, this book recovers stories of ordinary West Indians, enslaved and free, as they made places for themselves in the empire and the Atlantic world, from the time of sugar tycoon Simon Taylor to the perspective of Samuel Ringgold Ward, African American eyewitness to the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780521876261
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Review of the hardback: '… undertaking very demanding archival work, and thus reconstructing the world behind the words of these many writers and speakers, Tim Watson has done a service for scholars of the Atlantic world.' Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst»