The University of the West Indies Press
West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy
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West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy
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"Collection of essays written by former students, colleagues, and friends to honor a preeminent economic historian of the Caribbean. Covering period 1650-1850, essays encompass a broad range of topics, with major focus on various aspects of slavery and imperial relations during those years. Excellent introductory essay on Sheridan's contributions to Caribbean economic history. Extremely useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Language
English
ISBN
9789766400224
Contents
Preface
Richard Sheridan: Published Works
1 Richard B. Sheridan: The Making of a Caribbean Economic Historian
2 The Capture of the Blue Dove, 1664: Policy, Profits and Protection in Early English Jamaica
3 The Taylor Manuscript and Seventeenth-Century Jamaica
4 English Quaker Merchants and War at Sea, 1689-1783
5 Edward Trelawny's "Grand Elixir": Metropolitan Weakness and Constitutional Reform in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire
6 Botanical and Horticultural Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
7 The West India Interest and the Crisis of American Independence
8 The United States and the British West Indian Trade, 1783-1807
9 Property Rights in Pleasure: The Marketing of Slave Women's Sexuality in the West Indies
10 The Story of Two Jamaican Slaves: Sarah Affir and Robert McAlpine of Mesopotamia Estate
11 Patterns of Exchange within a Plantation Economy: Jamaica at the Time of Emancipation
12 Planter Profits and Slave Rewards: Amelioration Reconsidered
13 Abolition and Emancipation: Williams, Drescher and the Continuing Debate
14 The Ambivalencies of Independency: The Transition out of Slavery in the Bahamas, c. 1800-1850
15 The Land and Labour Problem at the Time of the Legal Emancipation of the British West Indian Slaves
16 Urban Crime and Social Control in St. Vincent during the Apprenticeship
17 "Repression is not a policy": Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa
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