The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748–1815

Ward, Jennifer

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“…Prospects for the Canadian colonies were dim as a result of rapid depletion of fur, fish, whale oil, and timber. 22 New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope might not have been envisioned as imperial moneymakers, but they served critical needs at the end of the century-New South Wales as a receptacle for convicts and the Cape of Good Hope as a filling station on East Indian trade routes. The success of both colonies was dependent on the productivity of the land.…”

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Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

Capps¹

2017

J. Br. Stud.

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This article challenges the dominant historical paradigms used to analyze imperial plant and animal transfers by examining the role of fodder crops in early colonial development in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope. In Alfred Crosby's enduring formulation of ecological imperialism—that is, the ecological transformation of temperate colonies of settlement by European plants, animals, and pathogens—was a largely independent process. To Crosby's critics, his grand narrative fails to acknowledge the technocratic management of plant and animal transfers on the part of increasingly long-armed colonial states from the mid-nineteenth century. Yet neither approach can adequately explain the period between the decline of Britain's Atlantic empire in the 1780s and the rise of its global empire in the 1830s, a period dominated by an aggressive ethos of agrarian improvement but lacking the institutional teeth of a more evolved imperial state. Traveling fodder crops link these embryonic antipodean colonies to the luminaries of the Agricultural Revolution in Britain. The attempt to transfer fodder-centric mixed husbandry to these colonies points to an emerging coalition of imperial ambition and scientific expertise in the late eighteenth-century British Empire.

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Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

Capps¹

2017

J. Br. Stud.

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“…Such numbers were not inconsequential; sugar represented Britain's single largest import from the 1750s to the 1820s. 60 Jamaica's most prosperous years were 1740 to 1775, during which the total value of the island's economy increased by more than 300 percent and its slave and sugar plantations more than doubled in number. 61 Indeed, with the island's increasing economic dependence on sugar came a corresponding labor dependence on slavery.…”

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The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire

Bender

2015

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Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, revealing the possibilities of an integrated empire that could provide the resources to generate and 'justify' British power. In response to the uprising, Britons throughout the Empire debated colonial responsibility, methods of counter-insurrection, military recruiting practices, and colonial governance. Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, the violence of 1857 continued to have a lasting effect. The fears generated by the uprising transformed how the British understood their relationship with the 'colonized' and shaped their own expectations of themselves as 'colonizer'. Placing the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context reminds us that British power was neither natural nor inevitable, but had to be constructed.

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“…104 104 H. of C. Journals , XXX (1803), p. 708 (8 April 1766). On the Free Port Act, see Anon., Act for opening certain ports ; Ward, ‘British West Indies’, p. 423; Langford, First Rockingham administration , pp. 200–7; Hoffman, Marquis , p. 116; Taylor and Pringle, eds., Correspondence of William Pitt , vol.…”

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Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain¹

Griffiths

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O’Brien

2008

The Economic History Review

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This paper offers a new perspective on the emergence of machinery in the cotton spinning trade during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. It does so by examining the interplay between economic, political, and national interests within the early Hanoverian state. Changes in trading relationships between textile producers across the three kingdoms of England/Wales, Ireland, and Scotland created escalating supply-side problems, which, by the 1760s, would precipitate a quest for solutions based on new technologies.A mong competing interpretations of the first industrial revolution, whether as a process of unbalanced growth, propelled by a few, technologically dynamic sectors, or as a more broadly based and incremental sequence of change, the primacy of cotton textiles as the paradigm example of precocious mechanization remains uncontested. Narratives continue to acknowledge the fundamental discontinuity that occurred in the spinning of cotton yarn in the second half of the eighteenth century. Within two or three decades from the 1760s, a process longestablished in a confined proto-industrial region in the north-west of England, small in scale, and domestic in character, was restructured along factory lines, employing machinery of increasing size and complexity. 2 That transformation has long been recognized as one of the key episodes in technological and industrial history, not merely for Britain, but for the world economy as a whole. 3 Despite this, our understanding of why machinery emerged in that industry, in that region, and at that time remains seriously incomplete. This is, in part, a consequence of the frustratingly thin documentation surrounding the appearance of the key innovations, compounded by confusing claim and counter-claim concerning their original authorship, and a paucity of knowledge about the processes of technological 1 The authors would like to thank three anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748–1815

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Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire

Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain¹

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Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

Fleets of Fodder: The Ecological Orchestration of Agrarian Improvement in New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 1780–1830

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Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain1

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