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Autore |
Burnard Trevor G (Trevor Graeme) |
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Titolo |
Mastery, tyranny, and desire : Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world / / Trevor Burnard |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0502-3 |
0-8078-9874-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slaveholders - Jamaica |
Plantation owners - Jamaica |
Plantation life - Jamaica - History - 18th century |
Slaves - Jamaica - Social conditions - 18th century |
Jamaica Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries; 2 Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living; 3 Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism; 4 In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime; 5 Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves; 6 Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves; 7 Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement |
8 The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire-Gardener and Slave OwnerNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World |
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