Settler Jamaica in the 1750s : a social portrait

Settler Jamaica in the 1750s : a social portrait /

By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene's study provides unparallel...

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Main Author: Greene, Jack P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Series:Early American histories.
Subjects:
1700-1799
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > World.
Economic history
Social conditions
Jamaica > Social conditions > 18th century.
Jamaica > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Jamaïque > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Jamaïque > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle.
Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Jamaica
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Jamaica at midcentury: a social and economic profile
  • Patterns of landholding
  • Distribution of economic settlements
  • St. Andrew: patterns of land use and production in a core parish
  • St. Andrew: patterns of labor distribution and productivity in a core parish
  • Spanish town: an urban profile of property, wealth, and population
  • Spanish town: an urban profile of structures of office holding and occupations
  • Kingston: an urban profile of property and wealth
  • St. James: property, families, and households in a peripheral parish.

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