African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 P., Examines the socioeconomic development of the British Settlement at Belize in its formative period from the seventeenth century to the establishment of Crown Colony rule in 1871. The connections between the political economy and the social structure of the Settlement are the primary focus of the study.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
520 p, The British Caribbean planters had reached their “prosperity” by 1763. However, “prosperity” was not won based on the monopoly of supply the country and British-American land; profits where made “under an absentee system.” The first part of the books is an introduction of the “old plantation and the decline of the sugar islands.
