Author : James Grainger
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1764
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Author : James Grainger
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1802
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Author : James Grainger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1847143822
First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon'. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a 'West India Georgic', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire.. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work.
Author : Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317316118
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
Author : Gordon Cook
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0080559395
This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular Manson's Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.
Author : Winthrop D. Jordan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838683
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.
Author : Henrice Altink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134268696
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Author : William Earle
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770482083
“Three-Fingered Jack,” the protagonist of this 1800 novel, is based on the escaped slave and Jamaican folk hero Jack Mansong, who was believed to have gained his strength from the Afro-Caribbean religion of obeah, or “obi.” His story, told in an inventive mix of styles, is a rousing and sympathetic account of an individual’s attempt to combat slavery while defending family honour. Historically significant for its portrayal of a slave rebellion and of the practice of obeah, Obi is also a fast-paced and lively novel, blending religion, politics, and romance. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a selection of contemporary documents, including historical and literary treatments of obeah and accounts of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion.
Author : Peter Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317792351
A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified for easier consultation and the compiler has provided, where possible, descriptions and comments on the works listed.
Author : Emily Senior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108416810
Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
