Settler Jamaica in the 1750s : a social portrait /
Greene, Jack P.,
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s : a social portrait / Jack P. Greene. - xii, 288 pages ; 25 cm. - Early American histories . - Early American histories. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.
Jamaica at midcentury: a social and economic profile -- Patterns of landholding -- Distribution of economic settlements -- St. Andrew: patterns of land use and production in a core parish -- St. Andrew: patterns of labor distribution and productivity in a core parish -- Spanish town: an urban profile of property, wealth, and population -- Spanish town: an urban profile of structures of office holding and occupations -- Kingston: an urban profile of property and wealth -- St. James: property, families, and households in a peripheral parish.
By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica--in addition to being the largest British colony in the West Indies--was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene's study provides unparalleled detail about the character of Jamaica's settler society during the decade of the 1750s, as the first century of British settlement drew to a close. Greene's sources facilitate a close examination of many aspects of the island's development at a particularly critical point in its history. Analysis of the data generated from this material permits a fine-grained account of patterns of landholding, economic activity, land use, social organization, and wealth distribution among Jamaica's free population during a period of sustained demographic, economic, social, and cultural expansion. Calling attention to local variations, the study puts special emphasis on the complexity and vitality of Jamaica's settler population, the island's economic and social diversity, the ubiquity and adaptability of slavery, the character and size of settler households, the range of urban professions, the value of urban housing, and the gender and racial dimensions of wealth holding. Greene's detailed analyses amplify and enrich these subjects, offering the most refined portrait to date of Jamaican society at a crucial juncture in its formation and providing scholars a quantitative base for analyzing Jamaica's political economy in the second half of the eighteenth century.--Publisher website.
9780813938318 0813938317 9780813933887 0813933889 9780813933917 0813933919
1700-1799
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Jamaica--Social conditions--18th century.
Jamaica--Economic conditions--18th century.
Jamaica--History--18th century.
Jamaica.
History.
HN223 / .G74 2016
306.09729209/033 Ja Gre
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s : a social portrait / Jack P. Greene. - xii, 288 pages ; 25 cm. - Early American histories . - Early American histories. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.
Jamaica at midcentury: a social and economic profile -- Patterns of landholding -- Distribution of economic settlements -- St. Andrew: patterns of land use and production in a core parish -- St. Andrew: patterns of labor distribution and productivity in a core parish -- Spanish town: an urban profile of property, wealth, and population -- Spanish town: an urban profile of structures of office holding and occupations -- Kingston: an urban profile of property and wealth -- St. James: property, families, and households in a peripheral parish.
By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica--in addition to being the largest British colony in the West Indies--was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene's study provides unparalleled detail about the character of Jamaica's settler society during the decade of the 1750s, as the first century of British settlement drew to a close. Greene's sources facilitate a close examination of many aspects of the island's development at a particularly critical point in its history. Analysis of the data generated from this material permits a fine-grained account of patterns of landholding, economic activity, land use, social organization, and wealth distribution among Jamaica's free population during a period of sustained demographic, economic, social, and cultural expansion. Calling attention to local variations, the study puts special emphasis on the complexity and vitality of Jamaica's settler population, the island's economic and social diversity, the ubiquity and adaptability of slavery, the character and size of settler households, the range of urban professions, the value of urban housing, and the gender and racial dimensions of wealth holding. Greene's detailed analyses amplify and enrich these subjects, offering the most refined portrait to date of Jamaican society at a crucial juncture in its formation and providing scholars a quantitative base for analyzing Jamaica's political economy in the second half of the eighteenth century.--Publisher website.
9780813938318 0813938317 9780813933887 0813933889 9780813933917 0813933919
1700-1799
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Jamaica--Social conditions--18th century.
Jamaica--Economic conditions--18th century.
Jamaica--History--18th century.
Jamaica.
History.
HN223 / .G74 2016
306.09729209/033 Ja Gre