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Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference

Title
Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw.
ISBN
9780820345055 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820345059 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820346625 (paperback : alk. paper)
0820346624 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780820345062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820345067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xv, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2014
Series
Early American places.
Early American places
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"An Heathenishe Brutish and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of People" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic
"An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control
"To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations
"Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith
"Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English Domination
"As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.
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