| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Early American places
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"An heathen 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Irish -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
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Irish -- West Indies, British -- Ethnic identity.
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Catholics -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
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Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
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West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
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West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaw, Jenny. Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013] xvm 259 pages Early American places 9780820345055 (DLC) 2013012009 |
| ISBN |
9780820345055 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0820345059 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780820346625 (paperback : alk. paper) |
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0820346624 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780820346342 (electronic bk.) |
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