Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh An Extraordinary Life in Revolutionary Times

Name: Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh An Extraordinary Life in Revolutionary Times
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ISBN: 9780375421532

ISBN-10: 037542153X

ISBN-13: 9780375421532

Edition: 2008

Authors: Linda Colley

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This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive explorations in eastern and southern India. A creature of multiple frontiers, she spent time in London, Menorca, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Africa. She speculated in Florida land, was caught up in the French and Indian War, linked to voyages to the Pacific, and enmeshed as victim or owner in three different systems of slavery. She was also crucially part of far larger…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Linda Colley was professor of history at yale University from 1982-1997 when she accepted an appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has just accepted a position as professor of history at Princeton which will begin in the Fall of 2003.

List of Plates	p. ix
List of Text Illustrations	p. xi
List of Maps	p. xiii
Conventions	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Out of the Caribbean	p. 1
Taken to Africa, Encountering Islam	p. 41
Trading from London, Looking to America	p. 87
Writing and Migrating	p. 134
An Asiatic Progress	p. 183
World War and Family Revolutions	p. 234
Ending - and Continuing	p. 288
Family Trees	p. 304
Notes	p. 307
Manuscript Sources	p. 341
Acknowledgements	p. 346
Index	p. 349
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