Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait

by Jack P. Greene

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938317
• ISBN13: 9780813938318
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"