Trevor Burnard

Broschiertes Buch

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

Beschreibung

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the diary of plantation owner Thistlewood.

Autor

Trevor Burnard is professor of American history and head of the Department of American Studies at the University of Sussex, England. He is author of Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of North Carolina Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780807855256
• ISBN-10: 0807855251
• Artikelnr.: 13710973