Island Lives Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean

Name: Island Lives Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780817310936

ISBN-10: 0817310932

ISBN-13: 9780817310936

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Paul Farnsworth, Jay B. Haviser, Andrï¿½ Delpuech, Laurie A. Wilkie, Norman F. Barka

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This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities. Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in the Caribbean. While richer nations, particularly the United States, may view the Caribbean today as merely a place for sun and fun, the island colonies were at one time far more important and lucrative to their European empire countries than their North American counterparts. From the 15th to the 19th centuries, as competing colonial powers vied with each other for military and economic advantage in…

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List price: $44.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 8/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Historical Archaeology in the Caribbean
Historical Archaeology in the Colonial Spanish Caribbean	p. 3
Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies: Recent Research in Guadeloupe	p. 21
Historical Archaeology in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba	p. 60
Historical Archaeology in the British Caribbean	p. 82
Caribbean Landscapes
Time Lines: Changing Settlement Patterns on St. Eustatius	p. 103
A Venue for Autonomy: Archaeology of a Changing Cultural Landscape, the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands	p. 142
"Getting the Essence of It": Galways Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies	p. 165
Caribbean Cultures
Creolization in Seventeenth-Century Barbados: Two Case Studies	p. 207
"Negroe Houses Built of Stone Besides Others Watl'd + Plaistered": The Creation of a Bahamian Tradition	p. 234
Methodist Intentions and African Sensibilities: The Victory of African Consumerism over Planter Paternalism at a Bahamian Plantation	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 301
Contributors	p. 353
Index	p. 355
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