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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 …
Landon Carter
Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls …
Settler Jamaica 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 …
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 …
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 …
Negotiated Authorities
These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the …
Imperatives, Behaviors and Identities
This work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler …
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 …
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 …