West Indies Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492

Name: West Indies Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492
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ISBN: 9780521386517

ISBN-10: 0521386519

ISBN-13: 9780521386517

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Watts, Alan R. H. Baker, Richard Dennis, Deryck Holdworth

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This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted. Dr Watts shows how the initial European vision of a land of plenty has been replaced by an awareness of the geographic and ecological fragiliaty of the area, and explains how the exploitative agricultural systems of the colonial and recent West Indies have not…

Book details

List price: $68.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Notes and abbreviations



The environment



Aboriginal peoples: settlement and culture



Spanish intrusion and colonisation



Early northwest European plantations



Northwest European sugar estates: the formative period, 1645 to 1665



The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: I General development and trade



The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: II Sugar production, regional population growth, and the slave-white ratios



The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: III Population: social characteristics, migration and the growth of towns



The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: IV Agricultural innovation and environmental change



Post-1833 adjustments: the period to 1900



Twentieth-century trends, and conclusions


Notes


References