O'Kane / Unknown / O'Neill Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean

Interdisciplinary perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5100-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 196, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

O'Kane, Finola

O'Neill, Ciarán

O'Neill, Ciaran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Sir Hilary Beckles
Introduction – Finola O’Kane and Ciaran O’Neill

Part I: Setting Out the Terrain
1. Setting out the terrain: Ireland and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century - David Dickson
2. From Perfidious Papists to Prosperous Planters: Making Irish elites in the early modern English Caribbean - Jenny Shaw
3. Free, and unfree – Ireland and Barbados, 1620-60- David Brown
4. Trade, plunder and Irishmen in early English Jamaica – Nuala Zahedieh
5. Doing business in the wartime Caribbean: John Byrn, Irish merchant of Kingston, Jamaica (September – October 1756) - Thomas M. Truxes

Part II: Consolidating Territories
6. Ireland and British Colonial Slave-ownership 1763-1833 - Nick Draper
7. Soldiers, settlers, slavers: Irish lives on the Spanish borderlands of North America and the Caribbean in the revolutionary 1790s- José Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson
8. Searching for sovereignties: the formation of the penal laws and slave codes in Ireland and the British Caribbean, c. 1680 to c. 1720 - Aaron Graham
9. Comparing Imperial design strategies; The Franco-Irish plantations of Saint-Domingue - Finola O'Kane
10. Eyre Coote, the House of Assembly and the Defence of Jamaica, 1806-8 - David Fleming
11. In search of excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites - Ciaran O'Neill

Part III: Comparative Perspectives
12. Two islands, many forts: Ireland and Bermuda in 1624 - Emily Mann
13. Imperial barrack-building in 18C Ireland and Jamaica– Charles Ivar McGrath
14. The architectures of empire in Jamaica: the Irish legacy ­ Louis P. Nelson
15. Designed in parallel or in translation?: The connected landscapes of Kelly’s Pen, Jamaica and Westport, Co. Mayo - Finola O’Kane
16. Formations and Deformations of Empire: Maria Edgeworth and the West Indies - Claire Connolly
17. How the Irish became black- Natalie Zacek
18. ‘Where are you actually from?’: Racial issues in the Irish context – Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Finola O'Kane is Professor in Architecture at University College Dublin.

Ciaran O’Neill is Ussher Associate Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin.