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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.

Publication Info. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Early American places
Early American places.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Irish -- West Indies, British -- Ethnic identity.
Irish.
Ethnicity.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Shaw, Jenny, 1977- author. Everyday life in the early English Caribbean 9780820345055 (DLC) 2013012009 (OCoLC)840937646
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