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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White Horse Press
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33107/ |