Aaron Graham

Tropical Leviathan (eBook, ePUB)

Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770-1840

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tropical Leviathan examines the political and economic history of the colonial state of Jamaica in the age of revolution and abolition. It analyses the ways in which Jamaica's economy attempted but eventually failed to secure the colonial state against enslaved opposition and explains how this led to near-state bankruptcy and emancipation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192550965
• Artikelnr.: 73233383

Autorenporträt

The late Aaron Graham (1984-2023) was a Lecturer in Early Modern British Economic History at University College London. He published extensively in the fields of early eighteenth century British economic and political history, Jamaican history, and in the history of banking. He won the Parliamentary History Essay Prize in 2017 and the Emile Lousse Essay Prize in 2018. His previous works include Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-13, The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783, edited with Patrick Walsh, and Bills of Union.