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Economy and Society in Jamaica, 1655-1834 (ES0070)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-EcSocJam

This specialist course is organized on the basis of nine 1.5 hour lecture/seminar sessions. It deals with a single British West Indian island, and concentrates on developments internal to the colony. Coverage includes: the changing economic balance between piracy, privateering, entrepot trade, and export agriculture; planters, merchants, doctors, officials, missionaries, and other elements in white society; black slavery - labour regimes, material culture, religion, accommodation, resistance, and rebellion; the status of women - white, slave, and free coloured.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 9 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to develop:
- An advanced knowledge of and competency in a specialist field of economic and colonial history.
- An ability to test general theories of 'plantation economy' and 'slave society' against the experience of a particular British West Indian colony.
- A knowledge and understanding of the central historiographical issues relating to British colonial Jamaica in the period of slavery, 1655-1834.
- An awareness of the primary and secondary sources employed by historians in this field, including printed material, government archives, privately kept records, and archaeology.
- The ability to engage with a specific issue in this subject area, incorporating appropriate literary, data-analytical, and bibliographical skills.