Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean

by Jenny Shaw

Book Overview

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects-Irish and Africans-contributed to these processes. Although their lives are obscured by sources constructed by elites, Shaw overcomes these constraints...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820346624
• ISBN13: 9780820346625
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"