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1 online resource (531 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Contributors -- Inroduction -- Section I: Historiography -- Chapter 1: Woodville Marshall and Caribbean History -- Chapter 2: 'Petticoat Rebellion?': The Black Woman's Body and Voice in the Struggles for Freedom in Colonial Jamaica -- Chapter 3: The Making of a Sugar Revolution -- Section II: Production, Culture and Resistance in the Slavery Era -- Chapter 4: The origins of Slave Rebellions in the Middle Passage |
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Chapter 5: The New 'Negro' Business: Hiring in the British West Indies 1750-1810 -- Chapter 6: Plantation Slave Settlements in Barbados 1650s to 1834 -- Chapter 7: Enslaved Children in Berbice, with Special reference to the Government Slaves, 1803-31 -- Chapter 8: Capital Sentences Against Slaves in barbados in the Eighteenth Century: An Analysis -- Chapter 9: Reassessing John Smith's Influence on the Demerara Slave Revolt of 1823 -- Chapter 10: Crop Over Fetes and Festivals in the Caribbean -- Section III: Forging a New Society |
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Chapter 11: post-Emancipation Adjustments in the Urban Context: Views from Bridgetown, Barbados -- Chapter 12: British Aid and West Indian Education 1835-45 -- Chapter 13: 'Behold The Tax Man Cometh': Taxation as a Tool of Oppression in Early Post-Emancipation British Guiana, 1838-48 -- Chapter 14: 'A Stake in the Soil': Land and Creole Politics in Free Jamaica -- the 1849 Elections -- Chapter 15: The Bridgetown Riot of 1872 -- Section IV: Political and Socio-cultural Issues -- Chapter 16: Challenging the 'Civilising Mission': Cricket as a Field of Socio-cultural Contestation in Jamaica 1865-1920 |
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Chapter 17: The Contestation for Recreational Space in Barbados, 1880-1910 -- Chapter 18: Another Grounding: Peasants and Citizenship in Trinidad and Guyana -- Chapter 19: The Roots of Survival: Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago during World War II -- Chapter 20: preparing for Politics: The Pre-PNM Years of Eric Williams -- Chapter 21: Race, Class and Ideology in Post-Colonial trinidad, 1956-91 -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Plantation workers -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
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Sugar workers -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
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Contract labor -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
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Plantations -- West Indies, British -- History
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Plantations
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Sugar workers -- Social conditions
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West Indies -- British West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marshall, Woodville K
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| ISBN |
9789766377809 |
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9766377804 |
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