Negotiating relief and freedom

Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907

von Oscar Webber

202 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781526160393
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2023
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Manchester University Press