The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 4494725 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Peter Hulme (University of Essex, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Páginas | 263-270 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbz013 |
| OpenAlex | W2936510034 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 7 |
Doing historical research on the smaller islands of the Caribbean has always been something of a challenge. Aside from the British government’s determination to ‘migrate’ files that might cause it embarrassment, until recently official buildings offered little protection from the ravages of natural disasters. On Dominica, for example, much local documentation was destroyed in Hurricane David in 1976 and in the fire that burned down the Court House in 1979. In the 1980s, the national archive was an unlit and unventilated cellar under the police station in the main town, Roseau. You collected a large key and a torch from the public library across the road and were left to explore on your own. Nothing was catalogued: blue books and other volumes were shelved haphazardly. A proper repository was built some years ago but many documents didn’t reach it. Lennox Honychurch – author of the book under review – happened to notice a truck at a landfill site dumping boxes of official papers, cleared from Government House during refurbishment in 1991: he rescued what he could. It always needs somebody to take an interest, and on those small islands there has often just been one person who has collected the documents, saved the artefacts, copied out material before the paper rotted, and written the first (and sometimes last) historical works. In many cases, that one person has been on hand to welcome researchers and show them the local ropes.
Art · Aside · Clearance · Documentation · Genealogy · Government (linguistics) · Notice · Political science · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |