Christopher Taylor

Empire of Neglect

The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371045
• ISBN-10: 0822371049
• Artikelnr.: 48378409

Autorenporträt

Christopher Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part One: Managing Neglect
1. The Political Economy of Neglect  33
2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica  72
Interregnum: Between Worlds
3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives  107
Part Two: Building New Worlds
4. Uncle Bolívar's Children  147
5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction"  187
Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come  229
Notes  239
Bibliography  275
Index  301