Economy and environment in the Caribbean : Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s /
Bonham C. Richardson. 1939-
Economy and environment in the Caribbean : Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s / PRINT Bonham C. Richardson ; with a foreword by David Lowenthal. - Barbados : Gainesville : The Press University of the West Indies ; University Press of Florida, 1997. - xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
The Royal Commission of 1987 -- Caribbean Geography -- The Eastern Caribbean in Depression, 1880-1900 -- Barbados and the Windwards -- Colonial Political Control -- Depression and Riots -- The Climate -- The Socioclimatology of the late 1800s -- Climatic Variability -- The Great Hurricane of 1898 -- The Waters -- Runoff, Streams and Swamps -- Harbours -- Migrating, Sailing and Smuggling -- Sea Fishing -- The Lowlands -- Bounding the Lowlands -- Sugar Cane -- Human Population Density -- Health, Mortality and Elevation -- The Highlands -- Deforestation -- Subsistence Agriculture -- Cacao and Nutmeg -- Soufriere's Eruption in 1902 -- The Eastern Caribbean in 1900: Region, Insularity and Change -- Imperial Ambivalence -- Land-Use Changes in the Windwards -- Sugar Cane's Continuity in Barbados -- Regional Control, Insular Responses -- Population Data.
For review see: Bridget Brereton, in Slavery abolition: a journal for slave and post-slave studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (August 1999); p. 160-161. - See also: Victor Bulmer-Thomas, in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol 31, no. 3 (October 1999); p. 760-761.
0813015391 (pbk) 9780813015392 9766400385 9789766400385
97028120
1800-1899
Economic development--Environmental aspects--History--Barbados--19th century.
Economic development--Environmental aspects--History--Windward Islands (West Indies)--19th century.
Human ecology--History--Barbados--19th century.
Human ecology--History--Windward Islands (West Indies)--19th century.
Man --Influence of environment --West Indies, British.
333.70972981 Ja Ric
Economy and environment in the Caribbean : Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s / PRINT Bonham C. Richardson ; with a foreword by David Lowenthal. - Barbados : Gainesville : The Press University of the West Indies ; University Press of Florida, 1997. - xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
The Royal Commission of 1987 -- Caribbean Geography -- The Eastern Caribbean in Depression, 1880-1900 -- Barbados and the Windwards -- Colonial Political Control -- Depression and Riots -- The Climate -- The Socioclimatology of the late 1800s -- Climatic Variability -- The Great Hurricane of 1898 -- The Waters -- Runoff, Streams and Swamps -- Harbours -- Migrating, Sailing and Smuggling -- Sea Fishing -- The Lowlands -- Bounding the Lowlands -- Sugar Cane -- Human Population Density -- Health, Mortality and Elevation -- The Highlands -- Deforestation -- Subsistence Agriculture -- Cacao and Nutmeg -- Soufriere's Eruption in 1902 -- The Eastern Caribbean in 1900: Region, Insularity and Change -- Imperial Ambivalence -- Land-Use Changes in the Windwards -- Sugar Cane's Continuity in Barbados -- Regional Control, Insular Responses -- Population Data.
For review see: Bridget Brereton, in Slavery abolition: a journal for slave and post-slave studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (August 1999); p. 160-161. - See also: Victor Bulmer-Thomas, in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol 31, no. 3 (October 1999); p. 760-761.
0813015391 (pbk) 9780813015392 9766400385 9789766400385
97028120
1800-1899
Economic development--Environmental aspects--History--Barbados--19th century.
Economic development--Environmental aspects--History--Windward Islands (West Indies)--19th century.
Human ecology--History--Barbados--19th century.
Human ecology--History--Windward Islands (West Indies)--19th century.
Man --Influence of environment --West Indies, British.
333.70972981 Ja Ric