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Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
Marco G. Meniketti
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Description for Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Series: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 75 black & white illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement.
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation is based on twelve seasons of meticulous archaeological field work and documentary research. Although Nevis was once a bustling hub of the British colonial project, the emigration of emancipated slaves and abandonment by European planters left large swathes of Nevis vacant. Reclaimed by ... Read more
In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement.
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation is based on twelve seasons of meticulous archaeological field work and documentary research. Although Nevis was once a bustling hub of the British colonial project, the emigration of emancipated slaves and abandonment by European planters left large swathes of Nevis vacant. Reclaimed by ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817318918
SKU
V9780817318918
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About Marco G. Meniketti
Marco G. Meniketti is an associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University , USA, and the director of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies.
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