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...Michael Craton Stedman’s Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society . By Stedman John Gabriel . Edited by Price Richard and Price Sally . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 350 pp. Cloth...

...Michael Craton Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 . By Sheridan Richard B. . Kingston : Canoe Press, University of the West Indies , 1994 (1974) . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 529 pp. Paper . $27.00...

...Michael Craton Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834 . By Higman B. W. . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1984 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Statistical Supplement. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxxiii , 781 . Cloth. $65.00 . Copyright 1985...

...Michael Craton Surprising in a book by a Jamaican-born author, the most disappointing chapter is that on nation building in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The overall theme is sustained well enough, but the effect is weakened by casual presentation. The author would have been better served...

...Thelma Peters A History of the Bahamas . By Craton Michael . London , 1962 . Collins Clear-Type Press . Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Bibliography. Appendices. Index . Pp. 320 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 From the footsteps of colonizing Puritans...

...William F. Keegan Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People . By Craton Michael and Saunders Gail . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index . xxiii , 455 pp. Cloth . $60.00 . Copyright 1993...

... Bahamian history, as they painstakingly follow the country’s course from colonial marginality to its precarious position in a postcolonial world dominated by its superpower neighbor, the United States. Craton and Saunders conclude with an eloquent and compelling tribute to “The Bahamian Self and Others...

...Franklin W. Knight Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies . By Craton Michael . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1983 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Chronology. Glossary. Index . Pp. 389 . Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University...

...Dale W. Tomich Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica . By Craton Michael and Greenland Garry . Cambridge , 1978 . Harvard University Press . Illustrations. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes . Pp. xxiii , 439 . Cloth. $32.50...

... is unfamiliar with the Spanish language. All references to sixteenth-century literature, while in themselves perhaps credible, are secondary or even tertiary: Sauer, Loven (sic), Craton, even Michener(!). The only apparent firsthand account is discounted because there is “no reason to accept” its veracity...

... and bibliographical essay give ample evidence of its scholarly underpinnings. Kiple goes beyond the work of Higman, Engerman, Craton, and others to include much useful data and analysis of slavery in the Hispanic Caribbean, especially in Cuba during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today Cuba is said to have...

... and 1838. This is a topic that has been extensively explored within the historiography of the British Empire. In the context of Seymour Drescher's argument with Eric Williams, historians such as J. R. Ward, Michael Craton, James Walvin, and B. W. Higman questioned the then-consecrated interpretations...

... studies of a Jamaica sugar plantation by Michael Craton, and of nineteenth-century coffee plantations by Warren Dean for Brazil, and by Ciro Flamarión Santana Cardoso for Costa Rica. For most readers, the most interesting article in the plantation section may well be the comparative study by Ward J...

.... In these same second and third parts, other essays by Michael Craton, Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Alison Games, Pieter Emmer, and Norman Barka, although useful, are more narrowly focused on the English and Dutch islands. Although a collection of essays cannot be expected to cover all major topics, the lack...

... Hall, and Michael Craton. These contributions form part of a larger framework, which treats the relationship between worker and establishment as one based on resistance and control, as advanced by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall in her comparative study of the slave societies of St. Domingue and Cuba. 4...

... uprising in 183-32, see Michael Craton, Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies (Ithaca, 1982), chap. 22. 68 Relations between the elite and the free poor in the countryside are analyzed for one locality in Hebe Maria Mattos de Castro, Ao sul da história (São Paulo...

... Higman, Elsa Goveia, and Michael Craton. The panel’s second presenter, John Garrigus (Jacksonville University), presented a paper entitled “Captives/Cultivators/Citizens: The Twentieth-Century Historiography on the Francophone Caribbean.” Garrigus offered a list, ranking the ten most influential...

... Caribbean Transformations (Chicago, 1974). 27 See, for example, Michael Craton, Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica (Cambridge, MA, 1978) and Teresita Martínez Vergne, “New Patterns for Puerto Rico’s Sugar Workers: Abolition and Centralization at San Vicente...

... Braund, “The Creeks Indians, Blacks, and Slavery,” Journal of Southern History 57, no. 4 (1991); Michael Craton, “From Caribs to Black Caribs: The Amerindian Roots of Servile Resistance in the Caribbean,” in In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History , ed. Gary Y. Okihiro...

... in Mexico, reviewed, 72:138-39 Crandon-Malamud, Libbet, From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia, reviewed, 73:172; review by, 72:115-16 Crassweller, Robert, Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina, reviewed, 68:611-12 Craton, Michael, reviews by, 72:107-8, 73...