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Author Shaw, Jenny, 1977- Author.

Title Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw.

Publication Info. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]

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 Central Library - Circulating Collection  F2131 .S427 2013    Available
Description xv, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Early American places
Early American places.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Subject Irish -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
Irish -- West Indies, British -- Ethnic identity.
Catholics -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN 9780820345055 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0820345059 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780820346625 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0820346624 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780820345062 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0820345067 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40022969240
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