Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American placesPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820346342 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference.DDC classification:
  • 972.9/03 23
LOC classification:
  • F2131 .S427 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"An heathen 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"An heathen 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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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