Connected Singularities

Convict Labour in Late Colonial Spanish America (1760s–1800)

Bibliographic Data

ID20080494
AuthorsChristian G De Vito (University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages171-202
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMicro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58490-4_7
OpenAlexW2736299229
ISBN9783319584904
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

De Vito highlights the tension between the universality of categories and the singularity of sites, and foregrounds the dialectics between the specificity and connectedness of each site. In particular, the chapter addresses the double problem of how to deal with the uncountable variety of historical circumstances and processes hidden beneath the apparently flat surface of the concept “convict labour”; and how to fully acknowledge that prisoners performed their work in very diverse, yet connected, localities. Here these issues are taken up by investigating the experiences of convict labour in Spanish Havana (Cuba) and Puerto de la Soledad (Malvinas/Falklands) in the 4 decades that followed the Seven Years War (1754–1763)

Archaeology · Colonialism · Convict · Criminology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Genealogy · Geometry · Political science · Proletariat · Singularity · Social connectedness · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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