Lady Nugent's Journal
Author: Lady Maria Nugent
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 486
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Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805
Author: Lady Maria Nugent
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.
A journal from the year 1811 till the year 1815, including a voyage to and residence in India
Author: lady Maria Nugent
Publisher:
Published: 1839
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBotany Bay
Author: Maria Nugent
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 174115488X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBotany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies, Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting, the natural environment struggles for survival amid the smokestacks. In the process, Botany Bay becomes a site for meditating on questions of history, myth, memory and politics in Australia. Botany Bay: where histories meet explores the role both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history-making plays in creating and sustaining local and national communities.
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
Author: Justin Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-08
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1107025850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
Author: Alida Nugent
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1101613823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlida Nugent graduated college with a degree in one hand and a drink in the other, eager to trade in parties and all-nighters for “the real world.” But post-grad wasn’t the glam life she imagined. Soon buried under a pile of bills, laundry, and three-dollar bottles of wine, it quickly became clear that she had no idea what she was doing. But hey, what twentysomething does? In Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse, Nugent shares what it takes to make the awkward leap from undergrad to “mature and responsible adult that definitely never eats peanut butter straight from the jar and considers it a meal.” From trying to find an apartment on the black hole otherwise known as Craigslist to the creative maneuvering needed to pay off student loans and still enjoy happy hour, Nugent documents the formative moments of being a twentysomething with a little bit of snark and a lot of heart. Perfect for fans of HBO's Girls and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half, and based on her popular Tumblr blog The Frenemy, Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse is a love note to boozin’, bitchin’ ladies everywhere.
The Global Indies
Author: Ashley L. Cohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0300255691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of British imperialism’s imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policyIn this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. She also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. Close-reading a mixed archive of plays, poems, travel narratives, parliamentary speeches, political pamphlets, visual satires, paintings, memoirs, manuscript letters, and diaries, Cohen reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, Cohen demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world.
Journal of a Lady of Quality
Author: Janet Schaw
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1429016949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery
Author: Lucille Mathurin
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9789768017246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
