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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... No popularized would accept the lack of any local responses to the great power skirmishes being fought on their doorsteps. Shallow as Dr. No 's engagement with Jamaican questions may now appear, its depictions of the island just as the British Empire withdrew were current and sympathetic. The enormous audiences...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to the interests of the United States, and in particular to the development of the Panama Canal, Haiti was situated in reference to Caribbean affairs external to the interests of the British Empire. The representation of the commemorations and Haitian history was, then, deployed in the Times to understand...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Christer Petley This essay offers a critical appraisal of Nicholas Draper's The Price of Emancipation. Draper's book enhances our understanding of the processes by which enslaved people in the British Empire gained juridical freedom during the 1830s, and in its focus on absentee slaveholders living...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery’s archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Faith Smith This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Adom Getachew This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Petal Samuel This review essay explores the extent to which the phenomenon of imperial “neglect” proposed in Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) maintains saliency in the wake of national independence throughout the British Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., through which a return to their Caribbean island space—perhaps more liberated—was possible. For black Caribbean intellectuals, British victory in South Africa promised an extension of the qualified franchise across the empire as it simultaneously threatened a return to naked commercial expansionism...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Christopher Taylor This essay serves as a response to the review essays by Adom Getachew and Petal Samuel on the author’s 2018 Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . Exploring how the history of liberal capitalism that Empire of Neglect tells might afford critical...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...” in wartime Britain, since they “were conscripted as subjects belonging to and within the British Empire,” inculcated in its traditions and pageantry, and invested in a sense of imperial Britishness (113, 19, 20). Nevertheless, “the practices and prejudices of the British social order ensured they remained...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...” was a category of labor that was assembled in diverse ways to respond to the shifting needs of empire; Coolie Woman emphasizes the term’s Tamil etymology (translated as “wages” or “hire”; xx) and distinguishes between “coolies” and the Chinese (who also arrived as indentured laborers) in British Guiana...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
... for which the British academy is revered—and
4 See, for example, Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004).
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occasionally reviled. Draper utilizes...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
... practices are
profoundly gendered, and provokes us to confront the engendering of historical practice
more broadly, from its methodological fetishization of documentary evidence to such
recently produced historical monuments as the six-volume Oxford History of the British
Empire...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2006
... in the past tense, I asked about the allegiance
to the British Empire among the migrant community in the early part of the century.
She moved her aged and fragile body towards me and looking at my face said with great
confi dence: “I am still a British Subject
Th ose are the remnants of history...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and shortcomings are mine. Wedderburn experienced traumatic events as a marginalized and oppressed person in several parts of the British Empire: in Jamaica, he was raised by his enslaved mother and grandmother; aboard a British Navy ship, he was subject to harsh discipline; and finally, in London he emerged...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
... England, in order to spend a few months visiting his father in Stewart Town.
7 3 . 1 eophilus Scholes, e British Empire and Alliances, or Britain’s Duty to Her Colonies and Subject Races (London:
Elliot Stock, 1899).
7 4 . G e i s s , e Pan-African Movement, 110...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the presence of empire at the heart of the
metropole.³ My particular preoccupation, as Rhonda Cobham so eloquently articulates
1. Madhavi Kale, Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Carib-
bean (Philadelphia: University of Pennslyvania Press...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 24–42.
Published: 01 July 2011
...),
53–55; and Eric Williams, British Historians and the West Indies (1964; repr., New York: A and B, 1994), 154–60.
9 Reginald Coupland, “The British Commonwealth and Colonial Empire: Trusteeship for Backward Peoples,” Port of Spain
Gazette, 11 October 1936...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
...,” Argentina Independent , 4 August 2013; on historians, restorative justice, and “juridification of the past,” see Caroline Elkins, “Alchemy of Evidence: Mau Mau, the British Empire, and the High Court of Justice,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, no. 5 (2011): 731–48; Hilary McD. Beckles...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... suggest we understand Equiano’s autobiography as a mediation of the “global
eighteenth century,” at the height of the British slave trade, antislavery movements, and
revolutions in France and Saint-Domingue.1 In 1807, as Britain abolished the African slave
trade in their empire...
