Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914

• Published in: Journal of world history Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 15 - 45
• Main Author: Goodall, Alex
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.03.2023; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Accounts; British imperialism; Colonialism; Crises; Earthquakes; Embargoes & blockades; Geopolitics; History; Identity politics; Natural disasters; Postcolonialism; Race; Rapprochement; Sociability; Sovereignty; Tourism; Travel industry; United States foreign relations; White supremacy; World War I; United States; United Kingdom; Caribbean Islands; Venezuela; British West Indies; United Kingdom > UK; Jamaica; United States > US

This article explores encounters between U.S. tourists and British imperial actors in the British West Indies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing on published traveller accounts from the period, it argues that literary cross-fertilization and practices of colonial sociability...