Drought and disaster in a revolutionary age: colonial Antigua during the American Independence War

The American War of Independence (1775-1783) spelled crisis for the British West Indies. Trade embargos between rebelling and loyal territories, losses to American pirates and hostilities with other European states left the Crown’s tropical Atlantic colonies short of the imported supplies that norma...

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Main Authors: Berland, Alexander Jorge, Endfield, Georgina H.
Format: Article
Published: White Horse Press 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33107/