Victorian Jamaica

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Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victorias reign over the British Empire from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs furniture and architecture as well as a wide range of texts the contributors trace the relationship between black Jamaicans and colonial institutions; contextualize race within ritual and performance; and outline how material and visual culture helped shape the complex politics of colonial society. By narrating Victorian history from a Caribbean perspective this richly illustrated volumefeaturing 270 full-color imagesoffers a complex and nuanced portrait of Jamaica that expands our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period. Contributors. Anna Arabindan-Kesson Tim Barringer Anthony Bogues David Boxer Patrick Bryan Steeve O. Buckridge Julian Cresser John M. Cross Petrina Dacres Belinda Edmondson Nadia Ellis Gillian Forrester Catherine Hall Gad Heuman Rivke Jaffe ONeil Lawrence Erica Moiah James Jan Marsh Wayne Modest Daniel T. Neely Mark Nesbitt Diana Paton Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis Veerle Poupeye Jennifer Raab James Robertson Shani Roper Faith Smith Nicole Smythe-Johnson Dianne M. Stewart Krista A. Thompson