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From Plantations to University Campus
Woodville Marshall
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Description for From Plantations to University Campus
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal roles at different junctures. Based primarily on deeds and wills, this story reveals serial transformation while providing some clear indications of varied entrepreneurial activity in a physical environment that was not ideally suited to intensive agricultural activity.
Several small plantations co-existed with one large plantation during the first century of English settlement. However, by the 1740s, the space ... Read more
In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal roles at different junctures. Based primarily on deeds and wills, this story reveals serial transformation while providing some clear indications of varied entrepreneurial activity in a physical environment that was not ideally suited to intensive agricultural activity.
Several small plantations co-existed with one large plantation during the first century of English settlement. However, by the 1740s, the space ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN
9789766403218
SKU
V9789766403218
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Woodville Marshall
Woodville Marshall is Emeritus Professor of History, University of the West Indies. His publications include The Colthurst Journal; I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford (co-authored with Wynter Crawford); and Freedom Is: The Story of the Founding of the Rock Hall Village.
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