Dr. James Craufurd Robertson

Research Interests

• Capital cities in the English Atlantic
• Early English Jamaica
• A history of Spanish Town

Citations

Book, Whole

• Robertson, James. Gone is the ancient glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1554-2000

Book, Chapter

• Robertson, James. Architectures of confidence?
• Robertson, James. Richard Robinson (c. 1545-1607)
• Robertson, James. Inherited cityscapes: Spanish Town, Jamaica
• Robertson, James . 'Stories' and 'histories' in late-seventeenth century Jamaica
• Robertson, James. British colonies: The Caribbean
• Robertson, James . The Adventures of Dick Whittington and the social construction of Elizabethan London

Journal, Article

• Robertson, James. Looking for early English Spanish Town in the Jamaica Archives
• Robertson, James. The last Cromwellian victory : Rio Nuevo, June 15-17 1658
• Robertson, James. Persuading the citizens? Charles I and London Bridge
• Robertson, James. The best poor man's country?: Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica
• Robertson, James. Reckoning with London: Interpreting the Bills of Mortality before John Gaunt
• Robertson, James. Civic and other loyalties
• Robertson, James . Jamaican architectures before Georgian
• Robertson, James . Re-writing the English conquest of Jamaica in the late seventeenth century
• Robertson, James . Jamaican archival resources for seventeenth and eighteenth century atlantic history
• Robertson, James . Reconsidering eighteenth-century Spanish Town
• Robertson, James. Re-inventing the English conquest of Jamaica in the late seventeenth century
• Robertson, James. Cromwell and the conquest of Jamaica
• Robertson, James. Frank Cundall's Robert Sedgwick: The start of a wartime colonial research project
• Robertson, James . Stuart London and the idea of a royal capital city

Conference Proceedings

• Robertson, James. As the John Crow flies: A preliminary survey of aerial images of jamaica
• Robertson, James. Kingston, Jamaica, 1748: The humble petition of the innocent distressed sons of Christ (commonly called negro slaves)
• Robertson, James. Creole politics and political principals in English Jamaica's second generation; Lord Alexander Hamilton's troubled stay in Jamaica
• Robertson, James. As the John Crow flies: Aerial photographic resources available to Jamaican archaeologists'
• Robertson, James. What was the western design?
• Robertson, James. Thinking about Spanish Town
• Robertson, James. Sufficient on our bare word (as we know not the meaning of another) : Ventriloquising Jamaica's slaves and the early politics of anti-slavery
• Robertson, James . Where the 1680s and ‘90s and Jamaican vernacular architecture in the 1760s fit into the first English century in Jamaica.
• Robertson, James. The land of the Spanish Negroes: African Jamaican landholding in late seventeenth-century Jamaica.
• Robertson, James. On the repercussions of a Maroon Victory: a skirmish in 1731 and its consequences.
• Robertson, James. Where the country meets the town: Spanish Town, Jamaica.
• Robertson, James. Changing landscapes described: Jamaica 1655-1770
• Robertson, James. Re-imagining public space: redefining and reshaping Spanish Town's main square 1543- 2001
• Robertson, James . Re-imagining public space: Jamaica’s main square, 1534- 2000.
• Robertson, James. 'Butting and bounding, South on a street in front of Sarah Rodrigues Deleon': Finding directions in Spanish Town, Jamaica 1757- 1840
• Robertson, James . Incomprehension and creole architecture, or, on not thinking about Spanish Town