Victorian Jamaica

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Wayne Modest is Head of the Research Center for Material Culture at the Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Acknowledgments  xxi
Introduction / Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer  1
Object Lessons
Introduction to Object Lessons  Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer  51
1. The Cruickshank Lock, circa 1838 / Wayne Modest  55
2. Table, circa 1830–1840 / John Cross  59
3. A Tread-Mill Scene in Jamaica, 1837 / Diana Paton  61
4. Sligoville with Misson Premises, 1843 / Catherine Hall  63
5. A View of Coke Chapel from the Parade, circa 1846–1847 / James Robertson  67
6. The Ordinance of Baptism / Dianne M. Stewart  69
7. Kidd's New Plan of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854 / Rivke Jaffe
8. Grave of Eighty Rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica / Wayne Modest  77
9. Map Recording of Rebellion of 1865 / Gad Heuman  79
10. The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 / Jennifer Raab  83
11. Newcastle, Jamaica, 1884 / Tim Barringer  85
12. Opening the Railway Line at Porus / James Robertson  89
13. Day School Children, Jamaica / Patrick Bryan  91
14. Wedding Group, Jamaica / Anthony Bogues  95
15. Child's Outdoor Cap. Lace-bark, circa 1850–1861 / Steeve O. Buckridge  97
16. Portrait of a Woman of Chinese Origin, circa  1895–1861 / Patrick Bryan  99
17. Mary Seacole, 1871 / Jan Marsh  103
18. Fatima, circa 1886 / Erica Moiah James  105
19. Selection of Jamaican Wood Samples Made for the 1891 Exhibition / Veerle Poupeye, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, and O'Neil Lawrence  109
20. Illustration of an Obeah Figure, 1893 / Diana Paton  111
21. Castleton Gardens / Krista A.Thompson  115
22. Queen Victoria, 1915 / Petrina Dacres  117
Part I. Making Victorian Subjects
1. State Formation in Victorian Jamaica / Diana Paton  125
2. Victorian Jamaica: The View from the Colonial Office / Gad Heuman  139
3. Liberalism, Colonial Power, Subjectivities, and the Technologies of Pastoral Coloniality: The Jamaican Case / Anthony Bogues  156
4. Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform n the Milroy Report of 1852 / Rivke Jaffe  174
5. Creating Good Colonial Citizens: Industrial Schools and Reformatories in Victorian Jamaica / Shani Roper  190
6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica / Mark Nesbitt  209
7. Victorian Sport in Jamaica, 1863–1909 / Julian Cresser  240
8. Rewriting the Past: Imperial Histories of Antislavery Nation / Catherine Hall  263
Part II. Visual and Material Cultures
9. Land, Labor, Landscape: Views of the Plantation in Victorian Jamaica / Tim Barringer  281
10. The Duperly Family and Photography in Victorian Jamaica / David Boxer  322
11. Noel B. Livingston's Gallery of Illustrious Jamaicans / Gillian Forrester  357
12. Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica / Anna Arabindan-Kesson  395
13. Victorian Furniture in Jamaica / John M. Cross  420
14. Jamacia's Victorian Architectures: 1834–1907 / James Robertson  439
15. Creole Architecture in Victorian Jamaica / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis  474
16. "Keeping Alive Before the People's Eyes This Great Event": Kingston's Queen Victoria Monument / Petrina Dacres  493
17. "A Period of Exhibitions": World's Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica / Wayne Modest  523
Part III. Race, Performance, Ritual
18. "Most Intensely Jamaican": The Rise of Brown Identity in Jamaica / Belinda Edmondson  553
19. "Black Skin, White Mask?": Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901 / Steeve O. Buckridge  577
20. Kumina: A Spiritual Vocabulary of Nationhood in Victorian Jamaica / Dianne M. Stewart  602
21. Jamaican Performance in the Age of Emancipation / Nadia Ellis  622
22. Black Jamaica and the Victorian Musical Imaginary / Daniel T. Neely  641
23. "A Mysterious Murder": Considering Jamaican Victorianism / Faith Smith  658
Contributors  675
Index  685