Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw.

By: Shaw, Jenny, 1977-Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American placesPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780820346342Subject(s): Irish -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century | Irish -- West Indies, British -- Ethnic identity | Catholics -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century | Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century | West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century | West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference.DDC classification: 972.9/03 LOC classification: F2131 | .S427 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English -- Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English -- Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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