1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822417603321

Autore

Shaw Jenny <1977->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8203-4662-4

0-8203-4634-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Early American places

Disciplina

972.9/03

Soggetti

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 century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish



and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821558503321

Autore

Terrace Vincent <1948->

Titolo

Encyclopedia of television pilots : 2,470 films broadcast 1937-2019 / / Vincent Terrace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4766-3810-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 pages)

Disciplina

791.4575

Soggetti

Television programs - United States - Plots, themes, etc

Television pilot programs - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Sommario/riassunto

"In November of 1937, NBC presented the first known pilot film, then called an 'experimental.' Over the years that followed, thousands of aired pilot films have appeared on TV either as stand-alone broadcasts or as part of a series. This reference work, the most complete guide to aired television pilot films ever published (or made available in any way), contains 2,470 alphabetically arranged programs, each with story information, performer and character cast listings, producers, air dates (where applicable), genre, and network or cable association. This edition also includes an appendix listing aired series spin-offs, like Agent Carter (2015), Fuller House (2016) and Magnum P.I. (2018). (Information on unaired pilot films can be found in the companion volume, Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018.)"--