1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816927403321

Autore

Candlin Kit

Titolo

The last Caribbean frontier, 1795-1815 / / Kit Candlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

ISBN

1-283-53207-7

9786613844521

1-137-03081-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Classificazione

HIS041000HIS054000HIS037060

Disciplina

972.9

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects - Caribbean Area - History - 19th century

Multiracial people - Caribbean Area - History - 19th century

Trinidad History

Grenada History

Demerara History

Great Britain Colonies Administration History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Map; Acknowledgements; Author's Note on Sources; Introduction: The Very Limits of Imagination: The Transient World of the Southern Caribbean; 1 What Became of the Fedon Rebellion?; 2 The Queen of Demerara; 3 Paper Tigers and Crooked Dispositions; 4 The Planter and the Governor; 5 Poison, Paranoia and Slavery on the Verge of Empire; 6 The Torture of Louisa Calderon; 7 That Business of Rosetta Smith; 8 The Importunate Revolution on the Main; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.