The Early English Caribbean 1570 1700

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000559590

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 2 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger Pdf

This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 2: Fitting into the Empire This volume documents the political situation in the Caribbean within the context of imperial rivalries. The Spanish tried to repulse all other newcomers, and by the 1660s territorial disputes between the English, the French and the Dutch were commonplace. Eventually, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish territories were established, ushering in a new era of small colonial outposts. Trading networks were built up, with sugar becoming the main export and the source of both wealth and controversy. Documents attest to the strong feelings provoked by the high duty on sugar as well as giving an insight into the day-to-day problems of managing plantations. New territories required new systems of governance. Issues surrounding these were reported and discussed in various publications aimed at an English readership. Printed compilations of colonial laws also gave readers back in England the chance to gain insights into the whole legal framework needed to meet the needs of Caribbean settlements.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon Vineberg Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1781447497

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon Vineberg Salinger Pdf

This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000559606

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 3 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger Pdf

This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 3: Living in the Caribbean Once settlements were firmly established articles began to appear promoting the way of life to those back at home. Numerous texts advertised the climate, the crops and the social life, and the recruitment of settlers generated a literature offering land, liberty and other benefits to those who migrated. Recruiting labour on the islands presented a particular problem. A transatlantic trade in servants was developed initially and some groups, including Quakers, and those convicted after the Monmouth Rebellion, were coerced into settling, but in the end the colonists came to rely on slavery. Sources document the growing involvement of English traders in the sale of enslaved Africans as well as the development of laws and the administration of justice on the islands.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000559583

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 1 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger Pdf

This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 1: Conceptualizing the West Indies The texts in this volume chart the growth of English interest in the West Indies, as seen through the publications of the time. Beginning with the Spanish discovery and colonization there followed reports of Spanish cruelty. Gradually the English started to make incursions into the area and this new era of colonization is reflected in the sources. Later publications document the landscape of the islands, the native inhabitants and the other settlers who began to arrive.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V. Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1138759341

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 Vol 1 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V. Salinger Pdf

"By the end of the seventeenth century, the English participated energetically in and thought deeply about the West Indies, a drastic change from their minimal involvement and imperfect knowledge of the 1560s. In the mid-sixteenth century the Spanish monopolized the Caribbean Sea, and prohibited all others access to it. Those Englishmen and women who sought to learn about it consulted a limited number of texts that had been produced in other languages; such knowledge was the purview of the elite. That situation changed on both fronts. Direct experience came as English people travelled to the West Indies and began to stake claims on lands there, while broader awareness increased as interested booksellers and writers translated foreign language texts or composed new accounts. These four volumes chart the changing engagement in the West Indies on the part of the English both as adventurers (to use the early modern term for those who 'ventured' their lives or fortunes) and as translators, writers and publishers. The centrality of the region to the growing English commitment to the wider world can be followed in the proliferation of a variety of texts that earned publication over the thirteen decades from the 1570s and the 1690s"--Introduction.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000559613

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 4 by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon V Salinger Pdf

This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 4: Making Meaning The flora and fauna of the islands and their economic potential was documented in a number of tracts which also helped to promote the colony as an attractive and bountiful place to settle. Running counter to the promotional literature was a whole sub-genre on natural disasters. Hurricanes and earthquakes were relatively common, and the commentators who wrote about them did so from a variety of motives: to entertain, to shock, to warn or simply to record them. Often portrayed as irreligious, settlers engaged energetically in the religious debates of the time. Dissenters were encouraged or coerced into leaving for the colonies and a number of Quaker publications condemned the transportation of their coreligionists. Though most settlers were members of the Church of England, its textual footprint was quite small and many more dissenting tracts have survived.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon Vineberg Salinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : LCCN:2015413452

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The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700: Making Meaning by Carla Gardina Pestana,Sharon Vineberg Salinger Pdf

Author : S. Barber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137480019

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The Disputatious Caribbean by S. Barber Pdf

This history of the 'Torrid Zone' offers a comprehensive and powerfully rich exploration of the 17th century Anglophone Atlantic world, overturning British and American historiographies and offering instead a vernacular history that skillfully negotiates diverse locations, periodizations, and the fraught waters of ethnicity and gender.

Author : Matteo Binasco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030473723

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Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network by Matteo Binasco Pdf

This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472258

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A Concise History of Jamaica by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

An authoritative social, economic, political, and cultural history of Jamaica.

Author : Jenny Shaw
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820346342

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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean by Jenny Shaw Pdf

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107050525

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Early Quakers and their Theological Thought by Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Author : Justine K. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000515671

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Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws by Justine K. Collins Pdf

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these “borrowed” laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English-speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in colonial slavery, Caribbean studies and Black and Atlantic history.

Author : Jane Ohlmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192693525

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Making Empire by Jane Ohlmeyer Pdf

Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future. Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as process—and Ireland's role in it—through the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that equate roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550-c.1770s). Ireland was England's oldest colony. How then did the English empire actually function in early modern Ireland and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? This book answers these questions by interrogating four interconnected themes. First, that Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system, Second, that the Irish operated as agents of empire(s). Third, Ireland served as laboratory in and for the English empire. Finally, it examines the impact that empire(s) had on people living in early modern Ireland. Even though the book's focus will be on Ireland and the English empire, the Irish were trans-imperial and engaged with all of the early modern imperial powers. It is therefore critical, where possible and appropriate, to look to other European and global empires for meaningful comparisons and connections in this era of expansionism. What becomes clear is that colonisation was not a single occurrence but an iterative and durable process that impacted different parts of Ireland at different times and in different ways. That imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion and expropriation. Strategies about how best to turn conquest into profit, to mobilise and control Ireland's natural resources, especially land and labour, varied but the reality of everyday life did not change and provoked a wide variety of responses ranging from acceptance and assimilation to resistance. This book, based on the 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, suggests that the moment has come revisit the history of empire, if only to better understand how it has formed the present, and how this might shape the future.

Author : Sal Nicolazzo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9780300241310

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Vagrant Figures by Sal Nicolazzo Pdf

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of police legitimacy in a period that predates the establishment of the modern police force. She argues that narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices shaped not only police and legal activity of the period, but also public conceptions of police power. Her extensive research delves into law and literature on both sides of the Atlantic, tracking the centrality of vagrancy in establishing police power as a form of sovereignty crucial to settler colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. The first book in several generations to address policing and vagrancy in the eighteenth century, and the first in the field to center race and empire in its account of literary vagrancy, Nicolazzo's work is a significant contribution to the field of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies.