Shaw, Jenny, 1977-

Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw. - Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) - Early American places .

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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.



9780820346342


Irish--Ethnic identity.--West Indies, British


Electronic Books.

F2131 / .E947 2013