Nicholas Rogers

Blood Waters

War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean

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Produktbeschreibung

Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781783276233
• ISBN-10: 1783276231
• Artikelnr.: 61220679

Autorenporträt

NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below; Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Lost in Translation? Tracking Robinson Crusoe Across the
Eighteenth Century 2. Vernon's Nemesis: The Caribbean Expeditions of
1741-42 3. War, Race and Labour in Caribbean Waters, 1740-50 4. Piracy and
Slavery Aboard the Black Prince, 1760-77 5. Rebellion, War and the Jamaican
Conspiracy of 1776 6. War, Race and Marginality: The Mosquito Coast in the
Eighteenth Century 7. Eighteenth-century Warfare in the Tropics: the
Nicaraguan Expedition of 1780 8. The Carbet and the Plantation: The Black
Caribs of Saint Vincent Postscript: The Caribbean Crucible at the Turn of
the Century Appendix: Black Risings, Conspiracies and Marronage, 1773-80
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