Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

Herausgeber: Petley, Christer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. It provides 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367029609
• ISBN-10: 036702960X
• Artikelnr.: 56924773

Autorenporträt

Christer Petley is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his publications are Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (2009) and articles in Atlantic Studies, Slavery & Abolition and The Historical Journal

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking the fall of the planter class 2. Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory
1674-1784 3. Sugar
spirits
and fodder: The London West India interest and the glut of 1807-15 4. The rise of a new planter class? Some countercurrents from British Guiana and Trinidad
1807-33 5. Gluttony
excess
and the fall of the planter class in the British Caribbean 6. The decline of Jamaica's interracial households and the fall of the planter class
1733-1823