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Economy and environment in the Caribbean : Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s

Author: Bonham C Richardson
Publisher: Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies ; Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bonham C Richardson
ISBN: 0813015391 9780813015392 9766400385 9789766400385
OCLC Number: 37246144
Description: xvii, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Bonham C. Richardson ; with a foreword by David Lowenthal.
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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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