{"product_id":"empire-of-neglect-9780822371151","title":"Empire of Neglect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dexterously brings together a range of long-neglected texts and voices. . . . \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect\u003c\/i\u003e fruitfully adds to critical conversations about shifts in late coloniality in the long nineteenth century and will interest Americanists working in a variety of period subfields.\" -- Duncan Faherty * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect, \u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Taylor presents a compelling argument that free trade undermined not only the commercial protections the colonists expected but also the social contracts they felt they were owed. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.\" -- W.T. Martin * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study. . . . Simply put, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect\u003c\/i\u003e is a field-making book. Because it sets itself so resolutely against not only the methodological protocols, but even the typical discursive structures of work explicitly or tacitly aligned with economic liberalism, it is by no means an easy or accessible read. Rather, it insists upon the dissonance that comes with questioning the basic premises of existing Americanist and Victorianist understandings of the Atlantic and the Hemispheric discursive frames. But for that reason, this remarkable piece of scholarship rewards careful reading and rereading, and promises to gradually but inexorably shape all that comes after it.\" -- Martha Schoolman * Review 19 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect\u003c\/i\u003e is exemplary for the ways it illustrates the worlds of critique and self-fashioning that are opened when we look elsewhere and otherwise.\" -- Adom Getachew * Small Axe *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and neglect? Christopher Taylor’s \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect \u003c\/i\u003egives that question a hefty dose of historical depth. ... His book will be of interest not only to specialists but also to anyone who is receptive to a set of sensitive reflections on the price that has been paid by any group or region that loses its centrality because the logic of market capitalism has passed it by.\" -- Theodore Koditschek * Victorian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Taylor's contribution to the study of liberalism and empire should be widely read, as neglect and abandonment are still matters of heated argument and material consequence in both postcolonial and still-colonial territories around the world.\" -- René Johnannes Kooiker * Modern Language Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Neglect\u003c\/i\u003e] is an important study that, by treating neglect as a political concept deeply connected to British liberalism, has much to say about how some in the Caribbean responded to that new reality.\" -- Christienna Fryar * New West Indian Guide *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Managing Neglect\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Political Economy of Neglect  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Them Worthless Ones\": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica  72\u003cbr\u003e Interregnum: Between Worlds\u003cbr\u003e 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives  107\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Building New Worlds\u003cbr\u003e 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children  147\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"A Purely 'Mercial Transaction\"  187\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come  229\u003cbr\u003e Notes  239\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  275\u003cbr\u003e Index  301\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406110597463,"sku":"9780822371151","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822371151.jpg?v=1730494570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-of-neglect-9780822371151","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}