Abstract
The edited collection Victorian Jamaica provides readers with an expansive yet fine-grained collection of snapshots of Jamaica during the nineteenth century. Material culture furthermore aptly characterizes the collection itself. Weighing about four pounds and containing over 700 pages with nearly 250 color illustrations, Victorian Jamaica offers an essential archive that will provide scholars with new avenues of inquiry as well as additional vantages from which to assess quotidian life during a period marked by the paradoxes of liberalism and emancipation.