Negotiating relief and freedom (eBook)

Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907

Oscar Webber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
224 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6038-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Imperialism
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: British Caribbean • deforestation • Disaster Relief • Disasters • Emancipation • Plantations • Poor Law • Resilience • Slavery • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-6038-2 / 1526160382
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6038-6 / 9781526160386