Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town Jamaica, 1534-2000
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English
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978-976-637-748-9
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Acknowledgements
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‘St. Jago de la Vega, the ancient city’
Introduction
Location! Location! Location! Establishing a Spanish City, 1534–1655
‘A Town Improving Every Day’: An English Town on Spanish Foundations, 1655–1692
‘A mere scattered village’? Spanish Town, 1692–1754
‘The seat of the Government and the second town of the Island’: Spanish Town, 1758–c. 1780
‘The genteelest and handsomest town in the island’: Reorientations, 1780–1838
‘Lively bright days are dawning on Our Island’: Early Victorian Spanish Town, 1838–1866
‘Oh, the Ancient City!’: Local Repercussions of Crown Colony Government, 1866–c. 1880
‘Let that be your picture of heaven!’: Economic and social change in Spanish Town, c. 1880–1944
Views from the Air, 1942–2000
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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