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The Sugar Barons

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777996
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Sugar Barons written by Matthew Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.

Empire's Crossroads

Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230766188
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Crossroads written by Carrie Gibson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term 'globalization' was coined. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters - but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists. It is not only a story of imperial expansion - European and American - but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.

Empire of Neglect

Author : Christopher Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822371151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Neglect written by Christopher Taylor and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial “neglect”—a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire’s distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect’s cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.

An Empire Divided

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293398
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book An Empire Divided written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.

West Indies and the Empire

Author : Henry de Rosenbach Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780403002641
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book West Indies and the Empire written by Henry de Rosenbach Walker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The West Indies and the Empire

Author : Henry de Rosenbach Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West Indies and the Empire written by Henry de Rosenbach Walker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bonds of Empire

Author : Anne Spry Rush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199588554
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Bonds of Empire written by Anne Spry Rush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how, from 1900 through the 1960s, West Indians employed their British identity both to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and to negotiate the cultural challenges of decolonization as Caribbean peoples.

A Short History of the West Indies. [With Plates, Including Maps, and a Bibliography.].

Author : John Horace Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the West Indies. [With Plates, Including Maps, and a Bibliography.]. written by John Horace Parry and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The West Indies and the Empire: Study and Travel in the Winter of 1900-1901

Author : Henry De Rosenbach Walker
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780469721289
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The West Indies and the Empire: Study and Travel in the Winter of 1900-1901 written by Henry De Rosenbach Walker and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Bankers and Empire

Author : Peter James Hudson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645925X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Bankers and Empire written by Peter James Hudson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.

The West Indies and the Empire

Author : Henry Rosenbach De Walker
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341110917
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The West Indies and the Empire written by Henry Rosenbach De Walker and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768123084
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean written by Michael Craton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

England in the West Indies

Author : George Reginald Margetson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book England in the West Indies written by George Reginald Margetson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The West Indies and the Empire

Author : H. de R. Walker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266283171
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The West Indies and the Empire written by H. de R. Walker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The West Indies and the Empire: Study and Travel in the Winter of 1900-1901 If this principle be accepted, a special interest attaches to the beneficent activity of the Imperial Department of Agriculture; to the grants in aid of revenue; to the subsidies paid conjointly with the Governments of Canada and Jamaica; to the despairing appeal of Antigua for an Imperial guarantee upon a loan for the construction of a Central Factory. We are bound to ask ourselves whether the assistance has taken the best form, and whether we have done all that is required. To these questions I have attempted to'supply an answer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies

Author : P. J. Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198841205
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies written by P. J. Marshall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day-to-day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies, which featured so largely in British concerns in the later eighteenth century. Initially, Burke saw the islands as a means by which his close connections might make their fortunes, later he was concerned with them as a great asset to be managed in the national interest, and, finally, he became a participant in debates about the slave trade. This volume adds a new dimension to assessments of Burke's views on empire, hitherto largely confined to Ireland, India, and America, and explores the complexities of his response to slavery. The system outraged his abundantly attested concern for the suffering caused by abuses of British power overseas, but one which he also recognised to be fundamental for sustaining the wealth generated by the West Indies, which he deemed essential to Britain's national power. He therefore sought compromises in the gradual reform of the system rather than immediate abolition of the trade or emancipation of the slaves.

History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa and Europe ...

Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa and Europe ... written by Robert Montgomery Martin and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strangers Within the Realm

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839418
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Strangers Within the Realm written by Bernard Bailyn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean. An introduction surveys British imperial historiography and provides a context for the volume as a whole. The essays focus on specific ethnic groups -- Native Americans, African-Americans, Scotch-Irish, and Dutch and Germans -- and their relations with the British, as well as on the effects of British expansion in particular regions -- Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the West Indies. A conclusion assesses the impact of the North American colonies on British society and politics. Taken together, these essays represent a new kind of imperial history -- one that portrays imperial expansion as a dynamic process in which the oulying areas, not only the English center, played an important role in the development and character of the Empire. The collection interpets imperial history broadly, examining it from the perspective of common folk as well as elites and discussing the clash of cultures in addition to political disputes. Finally, by examining shifting and multiple frontiers and by drawing parallels between outlying provinces, these essays move us closer to a truly integrated story that links the diverse ethnic experiences of the first British Empire. The contributors are Bernard Bailyn, Philip D. Morgan, Nicholas Canny, Eric Richards, James H. Merrell, A. G. Roeber, Maldwyn A. Jones, Michael Craton, J. M. Bumsted, and Jacob M. Price.