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Guide To British West Indian Archive Materials, In London And In The Islands, For The History Of The United States

Guide To British West Indian Archive Materials, In London And In The Islands, For The History Of The United States

Clifford Francis Bell, Herbert

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935448073X
ISBN13: 9789354480737
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 5 2021
Pages: 450
Weight: 2.28
Height: 0.91 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Behind the story of the United States lies another archive, scattered across London and the Caribbean islands. Herbert C. F. Bell opens the doors to those hidden repositories, mapping where the records of empire intersect with the making of America. It illuminates hidden paper trails. Designed as an archival research guide and historical reference handbook, the volume points researchers towards British West Indies archives that preserve governmental files, plantation papers, shipping logs, missionary records and other primary source materials crucial for American colonial history research and wider Atlantic world history sources. Organised as a practical primary source directory, it serves as a research tool for historians of colonial Caribbean history, the British Empire in the Caribbean and the early United States, while also acting as a Caribbean genealogy research aid for those tracing family links through Caribbean colonial records. Bell's careful documentation of United States history sources in island and metropolitan collections gave scholars one of the earliest systematic overviews of these holdings, and remains a landmark in archival scholarship. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure for libraries, researchers and classic-reference enthusiasts alike.

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