Thermochronologic data from Tobago, West Indies: Constraints on the cooling and accretion history of Mesozoic oceanic-arc rocks in the southern Caribbean

On Monday, October 16, 1758., Hugh Gaine reported a novelty. “Friday last,” he told his readers in the New-York Mercury, “arrived here from the West Indies, a Company of Comedians; some Part of which were here in the Year 1753.” This brief notice, which went on to assure its readers that the company had “an ample Certificate of their Private as well as publick Qualifications,” marks the beginning of the most significant event in American theatre history: the establishment of the professional theatre on this continent. The achievements of the Company of Comedians during its sixteen-year residence in North America are virtually without parallel in the history of the theatre, and have not received sufficient recognition by historians and scholars.

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Chapter Eight. The Representation Of Slaves And Slavery In The Writing Of The Natural History Of The West Indies During The Early Modern Centuries: French And English Contributions Compared

Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World ◽

10.1163/ej.9789004176201.i-340.49 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 197-224

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Early Modern ◽

West Indies ◽

The West ◽

French And English ◽

History Of

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Space and Identity in Martinique: Towards a New Reading of the Spatial History of the Peasantry

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d130289 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 289-309 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Christine Chivallon

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Social Group ◽

West Indies ◽

Social Experience ◽

Point Of View ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

French West Indies ◽

Spatial History ◽

Real Process ◽

History Of

Unlike research in the Anglophone West Indies, research in the French West Indies has only very recently developed the idea of the existence of a peasant social group in the plantation societies of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The fragility and instability of the collective identity in the French West Indies has served as a principal argument to support the view that the group is not a peasantry but a mere by-product of the plantation system. The idea of the absence of a real process of taking control of space or of a sort of intimate history with space occurs in some writings to explain this weakness of collective sense. Far from refuting the argument which firmly links the identity question to that of space, I shall reinforce it but in order to show that, on the contrary, there arc good grounds for affirming the existence, in the case of the peasant group in Martinique, of an original social experience in which space is strongly mobilised. In doing this, my intention is also to add weight to a theoretical point of view which shows the strength of the ties between space and identity, given that the peasant world in Martinique provides a paradigmatic example of the undeniable power of these ties.

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Epilogue

The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300208269.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 232-248

Author(s):

James M. Vaughn

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Atlantic World ◽

Adam Smith ◽

Political History ◽

Critical Examination ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Ancient Regime ◽

History Of ◽

East And West ◽

Wealth Of Nations

This chapter describes The Abbé Raynal's A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, one of the Enlightenment treatises that blazed like a comet across the night sky of the ancient régime. Widely translated and published, twenty official and fifty illegal editions produced between 1770 and 1796. While the Philosophical History was a bestseller throughout the Atlantic world, it was particularly widely discussed and debated in Britain and its empire. The work was the most detailed and critical examination to date of European overseas expansion, and it was avidly read in Britain—where it most famously influenced Adam Smith while he was in the final stages of composing An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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Sugar Plantations in the French West Indies

Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813054391.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kenneth G. Kelly

Keyword(s):

Historical Archaeology ◽

19Th Century ◽

West Indies ◽

17Th Century ◽

Archaeological Research ◽

Public Monuments ◽

Saint Domingue ◽

History Of ◽

French Colonial ◽

Official Recognition

The French West Indian colonial possessions of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint Domingue were among the most valuable overseas European colonies due to the production of the tropical commodities of coffee, cocoa, and in particular, sugar. The crops were raised on plantations through the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants between the mid 17th century and the mid 19th century. In spite of the importance of this heritage to the history of the French colonial enterprise, and more importantly, the history of the descendant populations, commemoration of this chapter of history has only recently begun. This commemoration includes public monuments, official recognition, and archaeological research. Historical archaeology contributes a perspective that sheds light on otherwise undocumented or poorly-documented aspects of the slavery era, such as the organization of villages, the housing within them, and the ways in which enslaved people saw to their needs for food.

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1. Drinking and temperance

Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780190280109.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 7-27

Author(s):

W. J. Rorabaugh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

West Indies ◽

Heavy Drinking ◽

The United States ◽

The West ◽

Temperance Movement ◽

History Of ◽

Viable System ◽

The Revolution

‘Drinking and temperance’ describes the history of alcohol consumption in the United States and the introduction of the temperance movement. From the earliest European settlers to the fighters of the Revolution, Americans were among the world’s heartiest drinkers, producing their own corn beer and importing rum from the West Indies. The British blockades during the war meant access to rum was lost. Americans began to distill whiskey from corn instead, which became the country’s patriotic drink. Problems associated with heavy drinking resulted in reformers creating the temperance movement, a cause that was then taken up by Protestant preachers. In the 1850s, evangelicals lobbied for statewide prohibition laws, but there was no viable system of enforcement.

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