Economy and environment in the Caribbean : Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s / Bonham C. Richardson ; with a foreword by David Lowenthal. PRINT

By:

Bonham C. Richardson, 1939-

Publication details: Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies ; Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1997.Description: xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0813015391
9780813015392
9766400385
9789766400385

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333.70972981 Ja Ric

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.

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.

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