Matthew Smith

Matthew J. Smith

Matthew J. Smith is Professor of Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica.


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The Caribbean: Through a Lens Brightly

James Anthony Froude is a name now lost to time. In the Victorian era the British historian, writer, and traveler held great prominence, much of which was due to his unabashed celebrations of imperialism, which he most famously presented in his influential 1888 study, The English in the West Indies. Froude’s infamy arises from his […]