Guide to British West Indian Archive Materials, in London and in the Islands, for the History of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Guide to British West Indian Archive Materials, in London and in the Islands, for the History of the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Herbert Clifford Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to British West Indian Archive Materials, in London and in the Islands, for the History of the United States This account of the West Indian portions of the Colonial Office Papers constitutes the first part of the present volume, the islands being arranged in alphabetical order as they are in the classification of the Colonial Office Papers themselves. Then follows a brief account of the papers of the West India Committee in London, after which follows, as the second main part of the volume, a body of descriptions, in alphabetical order, of the archives of the individual islands and of what they contain for the history of the English colonies and colonial system in America and of the relations of these islands to the United States down to 1815 (and, in a few cases, a little later). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.