West Indies accounts : essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy in honour of Richard Sheridan

Richard B. Sheridan : The Making Of A Caribbean Economic Historian / Howard Johnson -- Capture Of The Blue Dove, 1664 : Policy, Profits And Protection In Early English Jamaica / Nuala Zahedieh -- Taylor Manuscript And Seventeenth-century Jamaica / David Buisseret -- English Quaker Merchants And War At Sea, 1689-1783 / Jacob M. Price -- Edward Trelawny's Grand Elixir : Metropolitan Weakness And Constitutional Reform In The Mid-eighteenth-century British Empire / Jack P. Greene. Botanical And Horticultural Enterprise In Eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- West India Interest And The Crisis Of American Independence / Andrew J. O'shaughnessy -- United States And The British West Indian Trade, 1783-1807 / Selwyn H.h. Carrington -- Property Rights In Pleasure : The Marketing Of Slave Women's Sexuality In The West Indies / Hilary Mcd. Beckles -- Story Of Two Jamaican Slaves : Sarah Affir And Robert Mcalpine Of Mesopotamia Estate / Richard S. Dunn. Patterns Of Exchange Within A Plantation Economy : Jamaica At The Time Of Emancipation / B.w. Higman -- Planter Profits And Slave Rewards : Amelioration Reconsidered / Mary Turner -- Abolition And Emancipation : Williams, Drescher And The Continuing Debate / Walter Minchinton -- Ambivalencies Of Independence : The Transition Out Of Slavery In The Bahamas, C. 1800-1850 / Michael Craton -- Land And Labour Problem At The Time Of The Legal Emancipation Of The British West Indian Slaves / Stanley L. Engerman. Urban Crime And Social Control In St. Vincent During The Apprenticeship / Roderick A. Mcdonald -- Repression Is Not A Policy : Sydney Olivier On The West Indies And Africa / Richard A. Lobdell. Edited By Roderick A. Mcdonald. Proceedings Of The 25th Annual Conference Of The Association Of Caribbean Historians Held At The Mona Campus Of The University Of The West Indies, March 1993, To Celebrate The Retirement Of Richard B. Sheridan. Richard B. Sheridan, Published Works: P. X-xvi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [355]-376) And Index. "Collection of essays written by former students, colleagues, and friends to honor a preeminent economic historian of the Caribbean. Covering period 1650-1850, essays encompass a broad range of topics, with major focus on various aspects of slavery and imperial relations during those years. Excellent introductory essay on Sheridan's contributions to Caribbean economic history. Extremely useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ In the opening decades of the twentieth century, three United States historians-Ulrich B. Phillips, Frank W. Pitman and Lowell J. Ragatz-were instrumental in establishing economic history as a separate category in British Caribbean historiography.