Mastery, tyranny, and desire [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world / / Trevor Burnard

• Autore: Burnard Trevor G (Trevor Graeme)
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/62/097292
• Soggetto topico: Slaveholders - Jamaica; Plantation owners - Jamaica; Plantation life - Jamaica - History - 18th century; Slaves - Jamaica - Social conditions - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: Jamaica Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-312) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
• Titolo autorizzato: Mastery, tyranny, and desire
• ISBN: 1-4696-0502-3; 0-8078-9874-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456421703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II