Graham, A;
(2019)
Towns, government, legislation and the 'police' in Jamaica and the British Atlantic, 1770-1805.
Urban History
10.1017/S0963926819000166.
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Abstract
Urban renewal in the British Isles in the long eighteenth century was based on new municipal powers made possible by parliament. Focusing on Jamaica between 1770 and 1805, which passed legislation for the ‘policing’ – in the broader Scottish sense – of its towns, demonstrates that it was a global phenomenon common to the whole British Atlantic. However, the solutions it produced were also specific to local circumstances. Jamaican elites feared invasion, revolt and the dissolution of the slave society. Their police acts reflected these concerns, and demonstrate the alternative pathway that urban modernity took in this part of the British Atlantic.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Towns, government, legislation and the 'police' in Jamaica and the British Atlantic, 1770-1805 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0963926819000166 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000166 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10065246 |
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