{"product_id":"blood-waters-nicholas-nicholas-c-rogers-9781783276233","title":"Blood Waters: War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean","description":"This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and the Black Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out some autonomy from the British and Bourbon powers. It also explores the mutiny of a slave-ship and its unsuccessful raiding ventures in order to show how the dominant European powers sought to contain piracy in an expanding plantation complex. The book emphasizes the contrarieties of struggle, the difficulties preventing subaltern groups, whether slaves, free blacks, indigenous peoples or soldiers and sailors, from forging broader alliances, and the importance of tropical disease in shaping military outcomes. It warns against romanticizing resistance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, showing that it was instead a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of\u003ci\u003e Murder on the Middle Passage. The Trial of Captain Kimber\u003c\/i\u003e (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of \u003ci\u003eBristol from Below. Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City\u003c\/i\u003e, (Boydell, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783276231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783276233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2023","brand":"Nicholas Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982908162303,"sku":"9781783276233","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8fdda07-b057-452c-9c83-0bbb01de44a3.jpg?v=1683263627","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-waters-nicholas-nicholas-c-rogers-9781783276233","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}