Early Jamaica, West Indian Urban History, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century London
James Robertson is Professor of History. His research interests include early Jamaica, West Indian urban history, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. He has published on Jamaican history and early modern Britain, and his major publications include Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000 (Ian Randle Publishers: 2005). He is currently working on a book on the first English century in Jamaica, c.1650-1770. He has received several fellowships including Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum, and a Gilder-Lehrman Fellowship at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He has also received numerous awards including two Mona Researcher’s Awards. He teaches undergraduate courses on Imperialism since 1918, Urban Heritage of Jamaica, Continuity and Change in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1789, and the graduate course History And Heritage: Theory and Application.
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On the repercussions of a Maroon Victory: a skirmish in 1731 and its consequences. more.. James Craufurd RobertsonRobertson, James
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Where the 1680s and ‘90s and Jamaican vernacular architecture in the 1760s fit into the first English century in Jamaica. more.. James Craufurd RobertsonRobertson, James
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The land of the Spanish Negroes: African Jamaican landholding in late seventeenth-century Jamaica. more.. James Craufurd RobertsonRobertson, James
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Re-imagining public space: Jamaica’s main square, 1534- 2000. more.. James Craufurd RobertsonRobertson, James
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Where the country meets the town: Spanish Town, Jamaica. more.. James Craufurd RobertsonRobertson, James
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