An archaeology of social space : analyzing coffee plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains /
In An Archaeology of Social Space, James A. Delle examines the cognitive and material records of spatial design and use - including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises - of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica. Using the data collected fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Contributions to global historical archaeology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In An Archaeology of Social Space, James A. Delle examines the cognitive and material records of spatial design and use - including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises - of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica. Using the data collected from these sources, he considers such issues as: The rise and fall of the Jamaican coffee industry, and how this fluctuation was influenced by events in the larger world economy; how economic changes resulted in the creation of new social and material spaces in highland Jamaica; and the ways in which these spaces served as an arena for the negotiation of power in a plantation context, both before and after the abolition of slavery. Professionals, researchers, and students in archaeology, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics, will find this a unique and extremely valuable work. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 243 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781475791594 (electronic bk.) 1475791593 (electronic bk.) |