Victorian Jamaica / Timothy Barringer and Wayne Modest (Editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barringer, T. J., editor.

Modest, Wayne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British colonies.

Civilization.

Manners and customs.

History.

Jamaica--Civilization--19th century.

Jamaica.

Jamaica--History--19th century.

Jamaica--Social life and customs--19th century.

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

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 722 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs, furniture, and architecture, as well as a wide range of texts, the contributors trace the relationship between black Jamaicans and colonial institutions, contextualize race within ritual and performance, and outline how material and visual culture helped shape the complex politics of colonial society. By narrating Victorian history from a Caribbean perspective, this richly illustrated volume - featuring 270 full color images - offers a complex and nuanced portrait of Jamaica that expands our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period.

Contents:

Object lessons : Introduction to the vignettes / Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer

The Cruickshank lock, ca.1838 / Wayne Modest

Ralph Turnbull, table, ca.1830-40 / John Cross

A tread-mill scene in Jamaica, 1837 / Diana Paton

Sligoville with mission premises, 1843 / Catherine Hall

A view of Coke Chapel from the parade, ca.1846-47 / James Robertson

The ordinance of baptism / Dianne M. Stewart

Kidd's new plan of the city of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854 / Rivke Jaffe

Grave of eighty rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica / Wayne Modest

Map recording the rebellion of 1865 / Gad Heuman

Frederic Church, the Vale of St Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 / Jennifer Raab

R. Hay, Newcastle, Jamaica / Tim Barringer

Opening of railway line at Porus / James Robertson

Day school children, Jamaica / Patrick Bryan

Wedding group, Jamaica / Anthony Bogues

Child's outdoor cap. lace-bark, ca. 1850-61 / Steeve O. Buckridge

Portrait of a woman of Chinese origin, ca. 1895-1905 / Patrick Bryan

Count Gleichen, Mary Seacole, 1871 / Jan Marsh

Mrs Lionel Lee, Fatima, 1886 / Erica M. James

Selection of Jamaican wood samples made for the 1891 exhibition / Veerle Poupeye, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, and O'Neil Lawrence

Illustration of an obeah figure, 1893 / Diana Paton

A Duperly and sons, Castleton gardens / Krista A. Thompson

Mrs Lionel Lee, Queen Victoria, 1915 / Petrina Dacres

Making Victorian subjects

State formation in Victorian Jamaica / Diana Paton

Victorian Jamaica: the view from the colonial office / Gad Heuman

Liberalism, colonial power, subjectivities and the technologies of pastoral coloniality: the Jamaican case / Tony Bogues

Dirt, disease and difference in Victorian Jamaica: the politics of sanitary reform in the Milroy report of 1852 / Rivke Jaffe

Creating good colonial citizens: industrial schools and reformatories in Victorian Jamaica / Shani Roper

Botany in Victorian Jamaica / Mark Nesbitt

Victorian sport in Jamaica / Julian Cresser

Re-writing the past: imperial histories of the antislavery nation / Catherine Hall

Visual and material cultures

Land, labor, landscape: views of the plantation / Tim Barringer

The Duperly family and photography in Victorian Jamaica / David Boxer

Noel B. Livingston's gallery of illustrious Jamaicans / Gillian Forrester

Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica / Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Victorian furniture in Jamaica / John Cross

Jamaica's Victorian architectures: 1834-1907 / James Robertson

Jamaican vernacular 'architecture in the Victorian era / Elizabeth Pigou-Denis

'Keeping alive before the people's eyes this great event': Kingston's Queen Victorian monument / Petrina Dacres

'A period of exhibitions?: world's fairs, museums and the labouring black body in Jamaica / Wayne Modest

Race, performance, ritual

"Most intensely Jamaican": the rise of brown identity in Jamaicas / Belinda Edmundson

'Black skin, white mask' race, class and the politics of dress in Victorian Jamaican society / Steeve O. Buckridge

African religious cultures in Victorian Jamaica / Dianne M. Stewart

Jamaican performance in the age of emancipation / Nadia Ellis

Musical or not musical: black Jamaica and the Victorian musical imaginary / Daniel Neely

"A mysterious murder": considering Jamaican Victorianism / Faith Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Victorian Jamaica.

ISBN:

9780822360537

0822360535

9780822360681

0822360683

OCLC:

978287653