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At kingdom's edge : the Suriname struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English subject
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- Summary
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"Jeronimy Clifford's life is used as a case study for how life in a conquered colony shaped what it meant to be English outside of England. The afterlife of Clifford's case shows the salience of hi...
"Jeronimy Clifford's life is used as a case study for how life in a conquered colony shaped what it meant to be English outside of England. The afterlife of Clifford's case shows the salience of his story in new contexts and the unresolved tensions about the meanings of colonial subjecthood, Anglo-Dutch relations, and the legacy of England's seventeenth-century empire"-Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Jacob Selwood
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781501764226, 9781501764233, 9781501764219, 1501764233, 1501764225
- OCLC
- on1295617531
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. English subjecthood at kingdom's edge -- Creating an English Suriname (1651-1667) -- Staying English in Dutch Suriname (1667-1687) -- The glorious revolution in Suriname (1688-1695) -- Colonial subjecthood in England and the Netherlands: metropolitan imperial culture and Clifford's quest for restitution (1696-1737) -- The many afterlives of Jeronimy Clifford and the meanings of colonial English subjecthood in the eighteenth century (1737-1780)
Subjects
- Citizenship -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century.
- Citizenship -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
- Political rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century.
- Political rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
- Suriname -- Colonization -- History -- 17th century.
- Suriname -- Colonization -- History -- 18th century.