Britain and the West Indies,1624-1865 (ES0062)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCL-P-BWestInd

This survey course is organized on the basis of nine 1.5 hour lecture/seminar sessions. It considers how slave-based West Indian colonies came to play an important part in British history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but then rapidly lost that role. Coverage includes rivalry between European powers, the process of territorial acquisition, and the economics of Caribbean warfare; the British West Indies and imperial trade; West Indian influences on metropolitan society and economic development; slavery, anti-slavery, slave emancipation, and post-emancipation strategies of labour recruitment.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

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

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to develop:
- Advanced knowledge of and competency in a field of economic and colonial history.
- An ability to test general theories of 'plantation economy' and 'slave society' against the British West Indian experience.
- A knowledge and understanding of the central historiographical issues relating to the British West Indies in the 1624-1865 period.
- An awareness of the primary and secondary sources employed by historians in this field.
- The ability to engage with a specific issue in this subject area, incorporating appropriate literary, data-analytical, and bibliographical skills.