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Author Shaw, Jenny, 1977- author.

Title Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw
Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations
Series Early American places
Early American places.
Contents "An Heathenishe 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
Summary 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 t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed August 9, 2023)
Subject 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
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Catholics
Ethnic relations
Irish
Irish -- Ethnic identity
Slavery
SUBJECT West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century
West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century
Subject West Indies -- British West Indies
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820346342
0820346349
1299954782
9781299954786