The counter-revolutionary Atlantic: White west indian petitions and proslavery networks

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 405-420

  Lambert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Creolization; Early modern Atlantic; Imperial networks; Materiality of texts; Petitioning

Indexed keywords

SLAVE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 21444454566     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360500111345     Document Type: Article

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