Archive for the ‘Christer Petley’ Category

Kay Dian Kriz.  Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840.  Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven  Yale University Press, 2008. This highly original book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in [...]

Posted at History in Focus, a 14 volume journal published by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.  [On the main page, the link to the issue on slavery is broken.  Access it here.] Excerpt below: This year’s commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the passage of the British Act for the [...]





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