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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| 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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Abstract:
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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- Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
- Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Windward Islands -- History -- 19th century.
- Human ecology -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
- Human ecology -- Windward Islands -- History -- 19th century.
- Economische crises.
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Umwelt
- Geschichte 1880-1905.
- Barbados
- Windward Islands
- Umwelt / Volkswirtschaft / Barbados / Windward Islands.

