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Hubs of Empire
Matthew Mulcahy
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Description for Hubs of Empire
This volume is an ideal introduction to the complex and fascinating history of colonies too often neglected in standard textbook accounts. Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15, 9 black & white illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 1KBBFS; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
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 territories formed the Greater Caribbean. Although the Greater Caribbean does not loom large in the historical imaginations of many Americans, it was the wealthy center of Britain's Atlantic economy. Large-scale plantation slavery first emerged in Barbados, then spread throughout the sugar islands and the southeastern mainland colonies, allowing planters to acquire fortunes ... Read more
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 territories formed the Greater Caribbean. Although the Greater Caribbean does not loom large in the historical imaginations of many Americans, it was the wealthy center of Britain's Atlantic economy. Large-scale plantation slavery first emerged in Barbados, then spread throughout the sugar islands and the southeastern mainland colonies, allowing planters to acquire fortunes ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Regional Perspectives on Early America
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421414690
SKU
V9781421414690
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About Matthew Mulcahy
Matthew Mulcahy is a professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Hubs of Empire
Overall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written... The use of texts like Hubs of Empire is critical to the recuperation of this historical experience shared alike by what became the United States and its Caribbean neighbors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Robert Goddard Southern Spaces Mulcahy's theoretical approach is sure to foster much debate ... Read more
Robert Goddard Southern Spaces Mulcahy's theoretical approach is sure to foster much debate ... Read more