The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation - Davy - Image 1

£150.29

Routledge The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation - Davy

Name: The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation - Davy
Brand: Routledge
Price: 150.29 GBP
Availability: InStock

Social & Cultural

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£150 today · previous high £150 · all-time low £138

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 86 days · 86 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 86 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £138 (48 days, 55.8%)

Price range: £138 - £150

Price levels: 2 different prices over 86 days

Description

This historical account by John Davy, an English doctor and brother of chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, offers a detailed examination of Caribbean society and culture during a transformative period. Originally published in 1854, the volume draws on Davy's firsthand observations made whilst serving as Inspector General of Army Hospitals between 1845 and 1848, when he lived in Barbados and visited neighbouring islands. The work encompasses Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago and St Lucia, providing insights into life and conditions across the Windward and Leeward Islands following slave emancipation. Davy's scholarly perspective, informed by his fellowship in the Royal Society and his extensive experience in colonial medicine and administration, renders this text an invaluable primary source for understanding nineteenth-century Caribbean history, social structures and cultural transformation during this pivotal era of regional change.

Key Features

Written by John Davy, Fellow of the Royal Society and Inspector General of Army Hospitals, bringing authoritative medical and administrative expertise to Caribbean observations.

Covers multiple Caribbean islands including Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago and St Lucia, offering comparative perspectives on post-emancipation societies.

Based on firsthand observations from 1845-1848, when Davy lived in Barbados and travelled throughout the Windward and Leeward Islands.

Part of the Cass Library of West Indian Studies series, volume 22, positioning it within a comprehensive collection of Caribbean historical scholarship.

Provides primary source documentation of Caribbean society, culture and conditions in the mid-nineteenth century during the post-emancipation period.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0714619353
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 November 2004
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation - Davy

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The West Indies, Before and Since Slave Emancipation: Comprising the Windward and Leeward Islands' Military Command (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition)

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition)

Beyond Fragmentation: A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery Emancipation and Colonialization

Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780â1870 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 61)

Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics)

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

Caribbean Liberators: Bold and Black Personalities and Organizations 1900-1989

Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition - British Caribbean

Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean

Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World

The Jamaican Diaries of Robert Hibbert 1772-1780: Detailing a merchant family's involvement in and defence of the colonial slave trade based economy: 1

Caribbean Literature in English (Longman Literature In English Series)

Twenty-nine Years West Indies Central Africa 1829-1858

The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (Studies in Environment and History)

The Development of the British West Indies: 1700-1763 (Routledge Revivals)

A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)

The Development of the British West Indies: 1700-1763 (Routledge Revivals)

British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams (Studies in Interdisciplinary History)

The Jamaican Diaries of Robert Hibbert 1787-1802: Inside the First House of the Jamaica Trade: 2

Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000)

Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights (Longman Companions To History)