scholarly journals Notes on the Life-History of Monachus Tropicalis, the West Indian Seal

1887 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry L. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of

HURRICANES, CROPS, AND CAPITAL: THE METEOROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST INDIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie L. Pietruska
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Empire ◽  
The West ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Military Security ◽  
Symbolic Extension ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Weather Service

This article examines the mutually reinforcing imperatives of government science, capitalism, and American empire through a history of the U.S. Weather Bureau's West Indian weather service at the turn of the twentieth century. The original impetus for expanding American meteorological infrastructure into the Caribbean in 1898 was to protect naval vessels from hurricanes, but what began as a measure of military security became, within a year, an instrument of economic expansion that extracted climatological data and produced agricultural reports for American investors. This article argues that the West Indian weather service was a project of imperial meteorology that sought to impose a rational scientific and bureaucratic order on a region that American officials considered racially and culturally inferior, yet relied on the labor of local observers and Cuban meteorological experts in order to do so. Weather reporting networks are examined as a material and symbolic extension of American technoscientific power into the Caribbean and as a knowledge infrastructure that linked the production of agricultural commodities in Cuba and Puerto Rico to the world of commodity exchange in the United States.

Metaphors of Ethnic Identity: Projective Life History Narratives of Trinidadians of Indian Descent

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael V. Angrosino
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Life History ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Secure Place ◽  
Formal Properties

Abstract Indentured laborers from India were brought to the West Indies beginning in the 1840s. They form upwards of 40% of the population of several West Indian territories, including Trinidad (part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago). Despite considerable assimilation to West Indian norms, these peo-ple of Indian descent feel strongly about retaining a separate and distinctive cultural identity. There is no overall consensus, however, as to what these people and their distinctive culture should be called. I argue that the quest for an appropriate label of ethnic identity is not a matter of arcane academic interest, but is at the heart of these people's construction of a secure place in a pluralistic society. The technique of projective life-history narrative is explored as a means to uncover the dynamic of the discourse of ethnic self-identification in modern Trinidad. Four widely used labels of ethnic identity are seen as master meta-phors to which individual life accounts are assimilated. Analysis of the formal properties of those accounts facilitates an understanding of how people of Indian descent think of themselves and present themselves in social interaction with members of other groups. (Anthropology)

scholarly journals LIFE-HISTORY OF MARGARODES FLEGIA, CR.

1900 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
Harrison G. Dyar
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Key West ◽  
History Of

This West Indian Pyralid occurred to me on the cemetery grounds in Key West, Florida. The larva was destructive to a large bush (Thevetia neriifolia), commonly planted there for ornament. The larva webs up a group of the narrow leaves into a tube, and eats the parenchyma from within, thus destroying much foliage and rendering the plants unsightly.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1917 ◽  
Vol 93 (655) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Member Of Parliament

SIR HENRY ROSCOE, 1833-1915. Henky Enfield Roscoe was born in London on January 7, 1833. His father, Henry Roscoe, was a barrister, who became judge of the Court of Passage, Liverpool. His grandfather was William Roscoe, a banker in Liverpool, and in 1806 Liberal Member of Parliament for that borough. He was a man of remarkable attainments, a generous patron of the Arts, and known in the history of literature as the author of the “ Lives ” of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X. Roscoe’s mother’s maiden name was Maria Fletcher, the daughter of a respected Liverpool merchant, who was chairman of the West Indian Committee. Her maternal grandfather, Dr. William Enfield, author of the well known ‘ Speaker,’ a man distinguished for soundness of literary judgment, was the last Rector of the Warrington Academy, in which Joseph Priestley, the chemist, was a tutor

Bryan Edwards, F.R.S., 1743-1800

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Olwyn M. Blouet
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Environment ◽  
Member Of Parliament

Bryan Edwards was a Jamaican planter and politician who published a well–respected History of the West Indies in 1793. He articulated the planter view concerning the value of the West Indian colonies to Great Britain, and opposed the abolition of the slave trade. Edwards disputed European scientific speculation that the ‘New World’ environment retarded nature, although his scientific interests have largely gone unnoticed. Elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1794, he became a Member of Parliament in 1796, and wrote a History of Haiti in the following year. As Secretary of the African Association, Edwards edited the African travel journals of Mungo Park.

scholarly journals LIFE HISTORY NOTES ON SOME WEST INDIAN COENAGRIONINE DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA)

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
James G. Needham
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West

In the following pages I wish to bring together some scattered notes and observations on the life histories of a number of West Indian damselflies observed during five recent visits to the West Indies.

Calling the West Indies: Una Marson’s Wireless Black Atlantic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Whittington
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
The West ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Edward Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
The Uk

As a colonial subject and woman of colour, Una Marson occupies a unique place in the history of wartime broadcasting in Britain. Her weekly programCalling the West Indies began as a “message home” program for Caribbean soldiers stationed in the UK but grew, as the war progressed, into a literary and cultural forum for writers from across the Black Atlantic. Though barred from advocating openly for independence, Marson used her program to promote West Indian cultural autonomy by spotlighting emerging Caribbean literary figures and forging connections with activists and intellectuals from the U.S., Britain, Africa, and elsewhere. Beyond building such transatlantic networks, Calling the West Indies afforded listeners in the Caribbean the first opportunities to hear literature spoken in the West Indian forms of English which Edward Kamau Brathwaite would go on to call “nation language.” By focusing on Marson’s wartime work, this chapter rectifies a persistent tendency, in histories of Caribbean literature and broadcasting, to omit not only the central role played by this progressive feminist intellectual, but also the role of the war itself as catalyst to the postwar literary renaissance in the West Indies.

scholarly journals A Disagreeable Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-74
Author(s):  
Devin Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Bryan Edwards’s The History of the British West Indies is a text well known to historians of the Caribbean and the early modern Atlantic World. First published in 1793, the work is widely considered to be a classic of British Caribbean literature. This article introduces an unpublished first draft of Edwards’s preface to that work. Housed in the archives of the West India Committee in Westminster, England, this preface has never been published or fully analyzed by scholars in print. It offers valuable insight into the production of West Indian history at the end of the eighteenth century. In particular, it shows how colonial planters confronted the challenges of their day by attempting to wrest the practice of writing West Indian history from their critics in Great Britain. Unlike these metropolitan writers, Edwards had lived in the West Indian colonies for many years. He positioned his personal experience as being a primary source of his historical legitimacy.

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