scholarly journals On the temperature of man within the tropics

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 946-947
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Atmospheric Temperature ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
Tabular Form ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
The West ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Tropics

In a former paper which was published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1845, the author gave the results of an inquiry on the temperature of man in England, as measured under the tongue by a thermometer made for the purpose, and using certain precautions necessary to ensure accuracy. An inquiry of the same kind and with the same instrument he has conducted in the West Indies, extending over a period of nearly three years' and a half. This is the subject of his present communication. For the sake of comparison, he has followed in it nearly the same order as in the former. The results are given in a tabular form, divided into sections, and are followed by an appendix in which are recorded the daily observations in monthly sequence, accompanied by observations on the pulse, respiration and atmospheric temperature. The following are the principal conclusions which seem to be warranted by the results:— 1. That the temperature of man within the tropics, on an average, is nearly 1° higher than in a temperate climate, such as that of England.

scholarly journals XXII. On the temperature of man within the tropics

1850 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 437-466 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
The West ◽  
The Tropics

In a paper on the Temperature of Man, which I had the honour to submit to the Royal Society in 1845, and which was published in the Philosophical Transactions for the same year, I expressed the hope of being able to continue the inquiry in the West Indies, to which I was then about to proceed. In the present communication I propose to lay before the Society the results of the trials made whilst there, viz. during a period of about three years and a half, exclusive of trifling interruptions, and of one prolonged through several weeks, between June 1847 and October of that year, owing to illness.

Sierra Leonais, Créoles, Krio: la dialectique de l'identité

Africa ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Goerg
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
West Indies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Town

The study of phenomena relating to identity has prompted new approaches to the subject on the part of historians as well as anthropologists. They include the study of ethnicity, a dynamic combination of socio-economic, religious, cultural and political factors. In this regard the population of Freetown is particularly interesting, for it stems from several discrete migrations from the end of the eighteenth century onwards. Some of the immigrants came direct from the African continent, ‘Liberated Africans’ disembarked on the Sierra Leone peninsula, while others, formerly slaves, came from the UK, North America or the West Indies. The result of this diversity of origin was the formation of a very rich and specific society, with a mixture of European, African and West Indian characteristics. Among the town dwellers are those called successively Sierra Leoneans, Creoles and Krio.Since the 1950s several studies have focused on these people. After a polemical article published in 1977, new research was undertaken. Krio identity, which is at the same time a historical theme and politically contested territory, remains at the heart of the debate. In this article, emphasis is placed on terminology, to address the question of ‘ethnicity’ as applied to those known as Creoles. What were they called by administrators or historians (past and present)? What did they call themselves? How did they react to the various attempts at categorisation? How did the names, which are the visible aspect of ethnicity, evolve? What did the terms really mean and how can one move from a given name to the object it represents? These questions take into account several points of view, from within Krio/Creole society and from outside it.

Bureaucrats, Businessmen and Bananas: The Colonial Office and Shipping Services in the West Indies, 1895-1925

1992 ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Robert G. Greenhill
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
The West ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Colonial Office

The interplay between the Colonial Office and British businessmen around the turn of the last century forms the background of this essay. Although the subject has been well-documented in a number of scholarly books and articles, we still lack an unambiguous definition of the relationship. Wide interpretations are still possible on the limits and the extent of the influence exercised by both officials and entrepreneurs. On the one hand, it is argued that the Colonial Office “had an instinctive dislike of government intervention in economic activity.”...

scholarly journals The System of British Colonial Administration of the Crown Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Compared with the System Prevailing in the Nineteenth Century

1918 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 190-217
Author(s):  
H. E. Egerton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
The West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Responsible Government ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Colonial

The most learned of historians would find it difficult to add much to the sum of knowledge in treating the subject of my paper. That subject is the comparison between the administration of certain colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their administration in the nineteenth. The question is why, whereas in most colonies there has been steady progress from representative to responsible government-Lord Blachford was clearly wrong when he seemed to imply that Crown Colony government was the necessary preliminary to both these-in the West Indies, on the other hand, the tendency has been in the opposite direction, viz. from representative to Crown Colony government.

On the Mortality of Assured Lives in the West Indies (chiefly Barbados)

1888 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-195
Author(s):  
George F. Hardy ◽  
Howard J. Rothery
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Mortality Experience ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Standard Life ◽  
Special Classes

The Institute of Actuaries has always been ready to welcome contributions from members able to give information regarding the mortality found to prevail among special classes of lives, and among lives resident in other parts of the world than Great Britain. The authors of the present paper having had occasion to look closely into the subject of West Indian mortality, chiefly in connection with the financial affairs of the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society, have therefore willingly responded to an invitation to lay before the members of the Institute some account of the statistics which they have been able to gather, and of the conclusions at which they have arrived. They desire, in the first place, to express their thanks to the directors of the Barbados Mutual Society for permitting them to publish the results of the society's mortality experience, and to Mr. Spencer C. Thomson, the manager of the Standard Life Office, for some valuable statistics relating to the experience of that office regarding West Indian mortality.

scholarly journals Figures de l’homosexualité dans l’œuvre de Maryse Condé

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Daniel De la Fuente Díaz
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Maryse Conde ◽  
French Language ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Maryse Condé

La obra militante de Maryse Condé aborda la sexualidad humana en su pluralidad, presentándonos personajes de diversas identidades sexuales que deben encontrar su camino en una sociedad patriarcal y hetero-normada. La elección del tema de la homosexualidad, que está particularmente presente en algunas de sus novelas, forma parte de la voluntad de liberar la literatura francófona del Caribe de todos sus tabúes. Este estudio propone analizar las diferentes actitudes de los personajes LGBT en el universo condeano en relación con su orientación sexual. Al dar voz a estas minorías, la autora aborda el tema de la igualdad de derechos.   Maryse Condé’s activist work addresses human sexuality in its plurality, presenting us with characters of diverse sexual identities who must find their way in a patriarchal and heterogeneous society. The choice of the subject of homosexuality, which is particularly present in some of her novels, stems from this desire to free French-language Caribbean literature from all its taboos. This study aims to analyze the different attitudes of LGBT characters in the Condean universe in relation to their sexual orientation, which is considered so deviant in the West Indies that it becomes unspeakable. By giving a voice to these minorities who have been ignored, the author touches on the issue of equal rights. L’œuvre militante de Maryse Condé aborde la sexualité humaine dans sa pluralité, nous présentant des personnages aux identités sexuelles diverses, qui doivent se frayer un chemin dans une société patriarcale et hétéronormée. Le choix du sujet de l’homosexualité, particulièrement présent dans certains de ses romans, relève de cette volonté d’affranchir la littérature francophone caribéenne de tous ses tabous. Cette étude se propose d’analyser les différentes attitudes des personnages LGBT de l’univers condéen en rapport à leur orientation sexuelle considérée si déviante dans les Antilles qu’elle en devient indicible. En donnant la voix à ces minorités passées sous silence, l’auteure touche à la question de l’égalité des droits qui lui tient à cœur.

The Uplift of Barbados

1933 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Trechmann
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Coral Rock ◽  
The Tropics

The coral capped or fringed islands of the tropics afford many problems for students of the later formations. In the West Indies each island differs from another in structure. Barbados stands alone among them in its seaward position, the general Iniformity of its covering of coral rock and the height, 1,100 feet o which the coral rock has been raised. The formation of this oral rock, which reaches 240 feet in thickness, its uplift, the denudation of it off the Scotland area, and the deep ravining and erosion of both it and the Bissex Hill beds, Oceanic chalks, and Scotland Seeds is entirely so far as one can ascertain a feature of Pleistocene time.

On the Death-Rate among Assured Lives in the West Indies, being the Experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society during Thirty Years, 1846-76

1878 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
John Stott
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
The West ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
The Subject

Not much seems to have been written on the subject of the Mortality of the West Indies as compared with that of the mother country. The following contribution, being the experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society in these colonies during the last thirty years, may therefore, perhaps, be useful as well as interesting. The Directors of the Society have cordially adopted the suggestion that the figures should now be made public.

Some Notes on Life Assurance in Greater Britain, particularly with reference to the Work and Development of the Native Offices

1899 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 517-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Wyndham Tarn
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
West Indies ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The West ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Although a great deal of what might be fairly comprised under the heading to this paper came under discussion last year at the International Congress of Actuaries, I yet venture to submit that, upon so important and comprehensive a subject as the one I have chosen, there is a considerable amount of information, statistical and actuarial, which at that great gathering was not even touched upon. In the first place, the contributions to the Congress, valuable though they were, dealt only with the experience of individual Colonies or groups of Colonies, and the observations of the contributors were limited to particular branches of their subject. Secondly, some of the principal British Possessions, such as India, Canada, and the West Indies, appear to have been entirely unrepresented as regards life assurance among the subjects discussed. It is, therefore, with the object, partly of filling up a few of the gaps left vacant at the Congress, but chiefly of surveying the subject as affecting not merely individual Colonies or Dependencies, but the whole of the British Empire outside our own country, that I have collected and set down these notes.

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