Author: James KnightPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813945577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.
Author: James Knight
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Author: Institute of Jamaica. Library
Author: Institute of Jamaica. Library
Author: British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Author: British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Author: British Museum
Author: British Museum (London)
Author: British Museum. Department of Manuscripts