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Blood Waters - War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean (Hardcover)
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Blood Waters - War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of
maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a
'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where
solidarities were transitory and highly volatile. This book paints
a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier
zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are
paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted
site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical
campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of
indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and the
Black Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out some autonomy from the
British and Bourbon powers. It also explores the mutiny of a
slave-ship and its unsuccessful raiding ventures in order to show
how the dominant European powers sought to contain piracy in an
expanding plantation complex. The book emphasizes the contrarieties
of struggle, the difficulties preventing subaltern groups, whether
slaves, free blacks, indigenous peoples or soldiers and sailors,
from forging broader alliances, and the importance of tropical
disease in shaping military outcomes. It warns against
romanticizing resistance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean,
showing that it was instead a 'marchlands' in which violence was a
way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly
volatile.
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