Campbell persuasively posits that Belizean history can be pushed much further back from the traditional starting point of either the mid-seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The book provides a compelling thesis on the alliance between the British logwood cutters (the Baymen) and the Miskito Indians who together formed the major counterbalance to Spain’s power. The work also explores how social relations under forestry slavery were marked by less outward resistance and violence than that which obtained under the British sugar/slave economies of the region.
Campbell persuasively posits that Belizean history can be pushed much further back from the traditional starting point of either the mid-seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The book provides a compelling thesis on the alliance between the British logwood cutters (the Baymen) and the Miskito Indians who together formed the major counterbalance to Spain’s power. The work also explores how social relations under forestry slavery were marked by less outward resistance and violence than that which obtained under the British sugar/slave economies of the region.
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Becoming Belize: A History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity, 1528-1823
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789766402464 |
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Publisher: | The University of the West Indies Press |
Publication date: | 08/31/2011 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 448 |
Sales rank: | 595,033 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |