The Company's Island

Résumé du livre

Figures - vii -- Tables - ix -- Acknowledgements - xi -- 1. Trading Companies and the Colonial Endeavour - 1 -- 2. 'The Honourable English East India Company Doe Take Possession of the Island and with Drum and Trumpett Proclaim the Same': St Helena and the East India Company - 11 -- 3. 'Carry Free Planters to St Helena (If Any are Willing to Go)': Peopling the Company Colony - 44 -- 4. 'Uncivil Actions, Attempting to Breach Her Chastity and Being Guilty of Horridble Swearing': Law and Morality on St Helena - 56 -- 5. 'You May Kiss There': Gender Relations on St Helena - 73 -- 6. 'Ye Assistance and Labour of Negroes': Slavery on St Helena - 84 -- 7. 'Tending Even to Sedition': Resistance, Riot and Rebellion - 103 -- 8. 'I Bestowed a Broadside on Them': Defence and the Imperial Imperative - 127 -- 9. 'The Duties and Obligations Inherent in the Exercise of Sovereignty Cannot Be Borne by a Private Company': The Failure of Company Colonies - 156 -- Appendix 1. 'Exhortation, Admonition or Reproof': Sources for the Study of Early St Helena - 163 -- Appendix 2. St Helena Timeline - 167 -- Appendix 3. Tables - 169 -- Notes - 191 -- Index - 219.