Fragile Empire
Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–1720
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47318-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47318-7 (ISBN)
Through deep archival research, Fragile Empire is the first book to study the rise of slavery in the British empire from a global perspective. Written in an accessible manner, this work will interest undergraduates and the broader public, as well as scholars of slavery and the Atlantic world.
Fragile Empire reinterprets the rise of slavery in the early English tropics through an innovative geographic framework. It examines slavery at English sites in tropical zones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and argues that a variety of factors – epidemiology, slave majorities, European rivalries, and the power of indigenous polities – made the seventeenth-century English tropical empire particularly fragile, creating a model of empire in the tropics that was distinct from other English colonizations. English people across the tropics were outnumbered by their slaves. English slavery was forged in the tropics and it was increasingly marked by its permanence, inflexibility, and brutality. Early English societies were not the inevitable precursor to British imperial dominance, instead they were wrought with internal vulnerabilities and external threats from European and non-European competitors. Based on thorough archival research, Justin Roberts' important new study redefines our understanding of slavery and bound labor from a global perspective.
Fragile Empire reinterprets the rise of slavery in the early English tropics through an innovative geographic framework. It examines slavery at English sites in tropical zones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and argues that a variety of factors – epidemiology, slave majorities, European rivalries, and the power of indigenous polities – made the seventeenth-century English tropical empire particularly fragile, creating a model of empire in the tropics that was distinct from other English colonizations. English people across the tropics were outnumbered by their slaves. English slavery was forged in the tropics and it was increasingly marked by its permanence, inflexibility, and brutality. Early English societies were not the inevitable precursor to British imperial dominance, instead they were wrought with internal vulnerabilities and external threats from European and non-European competitors. Based on thorough archival research, Justin Roberts' important new study redefines our understanding of slavery and bound labor from a global perspective.
Justin Roberts is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 (2013) and has published numerous articles on the rise of racism and plantation slavery.
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Spelling and Dates; Note on Language; Introduction; 1. Slave Empire: English Expansion in the Tropics; 2. Captives: Vulnerable Populations in the English Tropics; 3. Bondage: Defining and Creating English Slavery; 4. Fevers: Disease, Race, and Slavery; 5. Metrics of Mastery: Race, Migration, and Political Arithmetic; 6. Fragile Empire: Insurrection and Invasion in the English Tropics; Appendix A; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Slaveries since Emancipation |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-47318-0 / 1108473180 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-47318-7 / 9781108473187 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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