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2018

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03 mai 2018

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9780822371748

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

18 Mo

Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial "neglect"-a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire's distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect's cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

03 mai 2018

EAN13

9780822371748

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

18 Mo

Empîré of NegLéct

RADICAL AMÉRICAS

A serîes edîted by Bruno Bosteels and George Cîccarîello-Maher

Empîré of NegLéct

The West Indîes în the Wake o Brîtîsh Lîberalîsm

CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR

Duke Unîversîty Press Durham and London 2018

© 2018 Duke Unîversîty Press A rîghts reserved Prînted în the Unîted States o Amerîca on acîd-ree paper∞ Text desîgned by Juîenne Aexander Typeset în Whîtman, Gî Sans, and Bîckham Scrîpt by Westchester Pubîshîng Servîces

Lîbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Names: Tayor, Chrîstopher, [date] author. Tîte: Empîre o negect : the West Indîes în the wake o Brîtîsh îberaîsm / Chrîstopher Tayor. Descrîptîon: Durham : Duke Unîversîty Press, 2018. | Serîes: Radîca Amérîcas | Incudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. Identîﬁers:lccn2017045248 (prînt) lccn2017052446 (ebook) isbn9780822371748 (ebook) isbn9780822371045 (hardcover : ak. paper) isbn9780822371151 (pbk. : ak. paper) Subjects:lcsh: Poîtîcs and îterature—West Indîes, Brîtîsh— Hîstory—19th century. | Lîberaîsm—Great Brîtaîn—Hîstory— 19th century. | Great Brîtaîn—Coonîes—Admînîstratîon— Hîstory—19th century. | West Indîan îterature (Engîsh)— Themes, motîves. | Amerîca—In îterature. Cassîﬁcatîon:lcc pr9210.5 (ebook) |lcc pr9210.5 .t39 2018 (prînt) |ddc820.9/358729—dc23 lcrecord avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2017045248

Cover art: Mîche Jean Cazabon (1813–1888),On the Caronî, Trînîdad, date unknown. Pencî, watercoor, and gouache on paper.

TO CHRIS TOPHER AN D GERRI TAYLOR, M Y PARENTS , &

S A R AH PI ER CE TAYLOR, M Y NEVER N EG LECTFUL PARTN ER

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COnténts

Acknowledgments îx

Introductîon 1

Managîng NegLéct PA RT ON E: 1 :The Poîtîca Economy o Negect33 2 :72“Them Worthess Ones”: Emancîpatory Lîberaîsm în Jamaîca

Betwéén WorLds I N TERREGN UM : 3 :Imperîa Abandonment and Hemîspherîc Aternatîves 107

BuîLdîng New WorLds PA RT TWO: 4 :Unce Boí147var’s Chîdren 5 :187“A Purey ’Mercîa Transactîon”

C ODA: Amerîcas That Were and Amerîcas to Come 229

Notes 239 - Bîblîography 275 - Index 301

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AcknOwLédgménts

That I have wrîtten a book about negect remaîns conusîng to me; ît was wrîtten wîth the ove, care, and support o înnumerabe teachers, coeagues, rîends, and comrades. The Engîsh Department at the Unîversîty o Penn-syvanîa îs the ony înstîtutîon I have ever et any întense învestment în, a weîrd eeîng or me that I can expaîn ony by the act that the depart-ment învests so much în îts students. Thîs book woud not have been possîbe wîthout the rîgorous coursework and proessîona guîdance o Suvîr Kau, MîchaeGamer,JedEsty,TsîtsîJajî,JoPark,HeatherLove,andDavîdEng.Stî ess woud ît have been possîbe wîthout the attentîon and exampe o my commîttee. I once wrote în a course evauatîon that Davîd Kazanjîan taught me how to read; he contînues to do so every tîme I go back to hîs work. Davîd modes or me a way to combîne archîva sensîtîvîty, theoretî-ca creatîvîty, and poîtîca urgency, and I coud not îmagîne a better mentor. I am equay îndebted to Anîa Loomba, whose abîîty to combîne sparkîng thînkîng wîth poîtîca ﬁerceness and înteectua rîgor contînues to înspîre me. As I moved wîth her rom the cassroom to the Occupy camp în Phîy, Anîa aowed me to encounter the contînuîtîes and dîscontînuîtîes between work în the academy and work în the word, and ît îs a esson I hod on to. Aong wîth Anîa, Amy Kapan has aways heped în honîng my poînts and my prose. (I’ never orget the how o Amy’s dog one evenîng as I bovîated about Mevîe; no doubt my book woud be shorter î Amy’s dog coud read.) The rîends, coeagues, and comrades I met at Penn have been a constant source o hep and înspîratîon; I’m ortunate that my best înterocutors have been my best rîends. Dave Af, Rache Banner, Jos Lavery, Phî Macîak, and Chrîsten Mucher have a gîven me învauabe persona and înteectua ad-vîce aong the way, and I’m truy îndebted to a o them. I thank the bartenders o Phîy or theîr patîence as Dave, Phî, and I taked too oud and too ong about husbandry manuas, dîsappearîng Jesuses, and bears. The brîîance o Chrîsten and Rache scared me rom our very ﬁrst casses together. Megan Cook has aways îvened thîngs up, and Me Mîcîr provîded învauabe advîce

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