White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolitio

Informationen zum Autor David Lambert is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway! University of London. This is his first book. Klappentext This book explores the articulation of white creole identity in Barbados during the age of abolitionism. Zusammenfassung This book considers what it meant to be a white Briton in the West Indian colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism. David Lambert offers a unique perspective into the consequences of these tumultuous times for a colony once renowned as the most loyal in the British Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: white creole culture, politics and identity; 1. The geographical 'problem of slavery'; 2. Joshua Steele and the 'improvement' of slavery; 3. Making a 'well constituted Society': the ambitions and limits of white unity; 4. Locating blame for the 1816 Rebellion; 5. Anti-Methodism and the uncertain place of Barbados; 6. 'Days of misery and nights of fear': white ideas of freedom at the end of slavery; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lambert David, David Lambert
• Assisted by: Alan R. H. Baker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521841313
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84131-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography; Cambridge Studies in Historica; Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous