Rethinking the fall of the planter class

This issue of Atlantic Studies began life as a one-day conference held at Chawton House Library in Hampshire, UK, and funded by the University of Southampton. The conference aimed, like this issue, to bring together scholars currently working on the history of the British West Indian planter class in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to discuss how, when, and why the fortunes of the planters went into decline. As this introduction notes, the difficulties faced by the planter class in the British West Indies from the 1780s onwards were an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. The American historian Lowell Ragatz published the first detailed historical account of their fall. His work helped to inform the influential arguments of Eric Williams, which were later challenged by Seymour Drescher. Recent research has begun to offer fresh perspectives on the debate about the decline of the planters, and this collection brings together articles taking a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social histor

The study of the British commonwealth; an inaugrual lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 19 November, 1921,

Mode of access: Internet

Freedom and unity,

Printed in India.At head of title: The Russell lecture, 1924.Mode of access: Internet

The war speeches of William Pitt, the younger,

"Most of the speeches in this volume have been reprinted from The speeches of William Pitt, a collection edited by Mr. W. S. Hathaway ... in November 1806 ... The remainder have been taken from The parliamentary history up to 1803 and The parliamentary debates from 1804 onwards."--Note.Mode of access: Internet

The exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890 : the slave trade and the scramble /

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