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Author | : Sir Alan Burns |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2023-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000857034 |
History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of other nations are studied, as well as the British, as the various colonial powers vied for possession of these valuable possessions. Terrible cruelty was inflicted by colonial masters to the indigenous inhabitants, the slaves and indentured labour, and the worst of these are recorded in separate appendices.
Author | : Michael Connors |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architecture, British colonial |
ISBN | : 9780847833078 |
British West Indies Style is a lavish account of the interiors, architecture, and lifestyle of the English colonial great houses and historic town houses in the Caribbean - from the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbados, and others, to the less-traveled islands of Bequia, British Guyana, and Montserrat. Close to fifty private homes are featured, with unique collections of antique, indigenous, and colonial furniture.
Author | : William Laurence Burn |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1975-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Frank Wesley Pitman |
Publisher | : New Haven : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Sir Alan Cuthbert Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 849 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812293398 |
There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.
Author | : Esq. Joseph Lowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1807 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Selwyn H. H. Carrington |
Publisher | : Brill Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This study deals with the economic and political impact of the American War of Independence (1775-1783) on the development of the British West Indian colonies. On the basis of extensive archival material and statistical data, the author demonstrates that the American Revolution not only cut off the British West Indies from its main source of food and plantation supplies, but also sparked a continuous fall in the production of sugar and other staples, leading to the economic decline of the sugar colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.
Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 777 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521840686 |
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.