Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Map vi
4. 1. A Comparative History of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue 1
5. 2. The Plantation World 25
6. 3. Urban Life 50
7. 4. The Seven Years’ War in the West Indies 82
8. 5. Dangerous Internal Enemies 101
9. 6. Racial Reconfigurations Before the American Revolution 137
10. 7. The Golden Age of the Plantocracy 164
11. 8. The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles 192
12. 9. Recovery and Consolidation in the 1780s 219
13. 10. The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles 244
14. Notes 269
15. Index 335
16. Acknowledgments 349