Solow,Barbara L. (Editor) and Engerman,Stanley L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 345 p.
Notes:
Includes Dunn, "Dreadful Idlers' in the Cane Fields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831," pp. 163-90, 173, 179, 188; Craton and Walvin, "Jamaican Plantation," pp. 134-41; and Long, "History of Jamaica," pp. 2:437-40.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
609 p, Dr. Watts shows how the initial European vision of a land of plenty has been replaced by an awareness of the geographic and ecological fragiliaty of the area, and explains how the exploitative agricultural systems of the colonial and recent West Indies have not adjusted to the demands of the environment. An enormous array of historical, biological and literary sources are marshalled in support of Dr Watts' analysis, which is likely to remain the standard work on the subject for many years to come.;
