Hubs of empire : the Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean /
"In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic interest, these t...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Regional perspectives on early America.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Rethinking Regions in Colonial British America
- Chapter One. Plundering and Planting the Greater Caribbean
- The Greater Caribbean
- Native Peoples and Native Societies
- Early English Incursions : Privateering and the Tobacco Trade
- Colonization of the Leeward Islands and Barbados
- Chapter Two. The Sweet Negotiation of Sugar
- Tobacco and Cotton Societies
- "This King of Sweets"
- The Rise of Slavery
- Leeward Island Transitions
- Chapter Three. Jamaica
- Jamaica and the Western Design
- Planting, Plunder, and Trade
- "A Constant Mine"
- Chapter Four. "Carolina in ye West Indies"
- The Colony of a Colony
- The Rice Revolution
- The Greater Lowcountry
- Chapter Five. "In Miserable Slavery"
- The Slave Trade
- The World of Work
- The Reaper's Garden
- Family Life, Culture, and Religion
- Resistance and Rebellion
- Chapter Six. Creole Societies
- Social Divisions
- Life in a Region of Death
- Women and Family Life
- Social and Cultural Life
- Chapter Seven. Trade, Politics, and War in the Eighteenth Century
- "A Grand Marine Empire"
- Local and Imperial Politics
- Warfare
- Eighteenth Century Conflicts
- The Treaty of Paris
- Epilogue: The Political Crises of 1760s
- Essay on Sources.