The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833
Author : Lowell Joseph Ragatz
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Lowell Joseph Ragatz
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Lowell Joseph Ragatz
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107375940
This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century ('The Age of Free Trade'); the second considers the period up to 1960 ('The Age of Preferences'); and the final section concerns the half century from the Cuban Revolution to the present ('The Age of Globalization'). The study makes use of a specially constructed database to observe trends across the whole region and chart the progress of nearly thirty individual countries. Its findings challenge many long-standing assumptions about the region, and its in-depth case studies shed new light on the history of three countries in particular, namely Belize, Cuba and Haiti.
Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1315516071
From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Author : John McCusker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134703392
Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Agriculture
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Author : James Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822326472
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 1997-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0773580441
Montserrat, although part of England's empire, was settled largely by the Irish and provides an opportunity to view the interaction of Irish emigrants with English imperialism in a situation where the Irish were not a small minority among white settlers. Within this context Akenson explores whether Irish imperialism on Montserrat differed from English imperialism in other colonies. Akenson reveals that the Irish proved to be as effective and as unfeeling colonists as the English and the Scottish, despite the long history of oppression in Ireland. He debunks the myth of the "nice" slave holder and the view that indentured labour prevailed in the West Indies in the seventeenth century. He also shows that the long-held habit of ignoring ethnic strife within the white ruling classes in the West Indies is misconceived. If the Irish Ran the World provides interesting insights into whether ethnicity was central to the making of the colonial world and the usefulness of studies of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English imperialism in the Americas. It will be the basis of the Joanne Goodman Lectures at the University of Western Ontario in 1997.
Author : Mark Hughlin Haller
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Peach
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Author : Annie Murray Hannay
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Land tenure
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