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The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon depending
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume …
Creating the British Atlantic
Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been …
Understanding the American Revolution
This volume brings together 16 essays on the American revolution which approach the revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the …
Settler Jamacia in the 1750s
By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica—in addition to being the largest British colony in the West Indies—was the …