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Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean (Paperback): Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean (Paperback)
Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean. Throughout the history of slavery, objects and places were significant to different groups of people, from the opulent master class to enslaved field hands as well as to other groups, including maroons, free people of colour and missionaries, all of who shared the lived environments of Caribbean plantation colonies. By exploring the rich material world inhabited by these people, this book offers new ways of seeing history from below, of linking localised experiences with global transformations and connecting deeply personal lived realities with larger epochal events that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the British Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class (Paperback): Christer Petley Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class (Paperback)
Christer Petley
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the 'fall of the planter class', offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean (Hardcover): Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean (Hardcover)
Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik
R4,134 Discovery Miles 41 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean. Throughout the history of slavery, objects and places were significant to different groups of people, from the opulent master class to enslaved field hands as well as to other groups, including maroons, free people of colour and missionaries, all of who shared the lived environments of Caribbean plantation colonies. By exploring the rich material world inhabited by these people, this book offers new ways of seeing history from below, of linking localised experiences with global transformations and connecting deeply personal lived realities with larger epochal events that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the British Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

Slaveholders in Jamaica - Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (Paperback): Christer Petley Slaveholders in Jamaica - Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (Paperback)
Christer Petley
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.

Slaveholders in Jamaica - Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (Hardcover): Christer Petley Slaveholders in Jamaica - Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (Hardcover)
Christer Petley
R4,593 Discovery Miles 45 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.

Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class (Hardcover): Christer Petley Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class (Hardcover)
Christer Petley
R4,131 Discovery Miles 41 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the 'fall of the planter class', offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): John McAleer The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
John McAleer; John McAleer; Edited by Christer Petley
R3,466 Discovery Miles 34 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities - crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the British-Atlantic empire in the era of war, revolution, counter-revolution, and upheaval between the beginning of the Seven Years War and the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. Contributions question the limits - conceptually and geographically - of that Atlantic world, suggesting that, by considering the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic together, we can gain greater insights into Britain's maritime history.

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): John McAleer The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
John McAleer; John McAleer; Edited by Christer Petley
R4,240 Discovery Miles 42 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities - crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the British-Atlantic empire in the era of war, revolution, counter-revolution, and upheaval between the beginning of the Seven Years War and the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. Contributions question the limits - conceptually and geographically - of that Atlantic world, suggesting that, by considering the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic together, we can gain greater insights into Britain's maritime history.

White Fury - A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (Hardcover): Christer Petley White Fury - A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
Christer Petley 1
R769 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R145 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, hundreds of thousands of enslaved people were brought from Africa to the Caribbean to toil and die within the brutal slave regime of the region, most of them destined for a life of labour on large sugar plantations. Their forced labour provided the basis for the immense fortunes of plantation owners like Taylor; it also produced wealth that poured into Britain. However, a tumultuous period that saw the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, as well as the rise of the abolitionist movement, witnessed new attacks on slavery and challenged the power of a once-confident slaveholder elite. In White Fury, Christer Petley uses Taylor's rich and expressive letters to allow us an intimate glimpse into the aspirations and frustrations of a wealthy and powerful British slaveholder during the Age of Revolution. The letters provide a fascinating insight into the merciless machinery and unpredictable hazards of the Jamaican plantation world; into the ambitions of planters who used the great wealth they extracted from Jamaica to join the ranks of the British elite; and into the impact of wars, revolutions, and fierce political struggles that led, eventually, to the reform of the exploitative slave system that Taylor had helped build . . . and which he defended right up until the last weak scratches of his pen.

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