Empire, enslavement, and freedom in the Caribbean
By: Michael Craton.
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers; Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica; Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History.; Plantations -- West Indies, British -- History.; Slaves -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions.; Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British.
Description: "Empire Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean is a wide-ranging collection which draws on Professor Craton's extensive writing on the history, culture and historiography of the British Caribbean, coherently organised in three thematic units."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is one of the few single-authored collections of exclusively historical essays relating to the Caribbean. It mixes description, narrative and traditional historical analysis with the cliometric and cross-disciplinary methods of the New Social History."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-511) and index.