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Sugar cane capitalism and environmental transformation : an archaeology of colonial Nevis, West Indies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meniketti, Marco G., 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Subjects:
Nevis > Antiquities.
Nevis > History.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Saint Kitts and Nevis > Nevis.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theory and method
  • The Caribbean defined and the scope of archaeology
  • Method and theory
  • Colonial settlement and emergent capitalism
  • Part II. Archaeology
  • Nevis history, 1627-1833
  • An archaeology of plantation industrialization
  • Decline and adjustment, 1782-1833
  • Part III. Synthesis and conclusions
  • Environmental change in capitalism's shadow.