John Mc Aleer is a historian of the British Empire. His work focuses on the British encounter and engagement with the wider world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts.
Christer Petley is a historian with interests in Atlantic history, British imperial history, and Caribbean studies. His work focuses on the histories and legacies of slavery in the Americas, mainly on slave societies in the British Caribbean.
9 Ebooks von Christer Petley
John McAleer: The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the …
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Englisch
€117.69
Christer Petley: White Fury
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2, 248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the …
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Englisch
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€16.47
Christer Petley: White Fury
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2, 248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the …
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Englisch
DRM
€16.42
Christer Petley: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class
From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth …
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Englisch
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€55.86
Christer Petley: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class
From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth …
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Englisch
DRM
€55.81
Stephan (St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA) Lenik & Christer (University of Southampton, UK) Petley: Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean
Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancip …
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€55.49
Stephan (St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA) Lenik & Christer (University of Southampton, UK) Petley: Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean
Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancip …
PDF
DRM
€55.90
Christer Petley: Slaveholders in Jamaica
Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and …
EPUB
Englisch
DRM
€60.23
Christer Petley: Slaveholders in Jamaica
Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€60.23
