Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference /

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Hlavní autor: Shaw, Jenny, 1977-
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Edice:Early American places
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  • "An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic
  • "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control
  • "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations
  • "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith
  • "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English
  • Domination
  • "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.