The last Caribbean frontier, 1795-1815 / Kit Candlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Candlin, Kit.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people.

History.

Immigrants.

Social aspects.

Trinidad--History.

Trinidad.

Grenada--History.

Grenada.

Demerara--History.

Demerara.

Immigrants--Social aspects--Caribbean Area--History--19th century.

Multiracial people--Caribbean Area--History--19th century.

Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815.

Picton, Thomas.

Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Administration.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. The three British colonies of Grenada, Trinidad and Demerara were characterized by insecurity and personified by the high mobility of people and ideas across empires; it was a part of the Caribbean that, more than any other region, provided an example of the liminal space of contested empires. Because of the multiculturalism inherent in this part of the world, as well as the undeveloped protean nature of the region, this was a place of shifting borderland communities and transient ideas, where women in motion and free people of colour played a central role. In illuminating this little-understood frontier region, largely unrepresented in the meta-narratives of the Americas, Kit Candlin seeks to expand and add nuance to our understanding of the Atlantic world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 What Became of the Fedon Rebellion? 1

2 The Queen of Demerara 24

3 Paper Tigers and Crooked Dispositions 51

4 The Planter and the Governor 75

5 Poison, Paranoia and Slavery on the Verge of Empire 96

6 The Torture of Louisa Calderon 118

7 That Business of Rosetta Smith 138

8 The Importunate Revolution on the Main 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230354081

0230354084

OCLC:

782988574

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