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Autore |
Amussen Susan Dwyer |
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Titolo |
Caribbean exchanges [[electronic resource] ] : slavery and the transformation of English society, 1640-1700 / / Susan Dwyer Amussen |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0593-7 |
0-8078-8883-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Slavery - West Indies, British - History |
Social change - England - History - 17th century |
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England Social conditions 17th century |
England Civilization Caribbean influences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The English Caribbean and Caribbean England -- Trade and settlement : England and the world in the seventeenth century -- Islands of difference : crossing the Atlantic, experiencing the West Indies -- A happy and innocent way of thriving : planting sugar, building a society -- Right English government : law and liberty, service and slavery -- Due order and subjection : hierarchy, resistance, and repression -- If her son is living with you she sends her love : the Caribbean in England, 1650-1700 -- Race, gender, and class crossing the English Atlantic. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding.As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new |
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laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barb |
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