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Jamaica surveyed: Plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [Paperback]

B. W Higman (Author)


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B.W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University and Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies. He has doctorates in History and Geography. An Australian, he lived almost thirty years in Jamaica, teaching at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. Higman's interest in food history began in the Caribbean and resulted in "Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture" (2008). Most of his earlier books were concerned with the history of slavery, and his most recent is "A Concise History of the Caribbean" (2011).

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Those who wish to study the history of settlement in Jamaica are unusually fortunate in having available to them a remarkable collection of maps and plans. Read the first page
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gang picking coffee, penguin fence, bushells coffee, hands picking coffee, plantation surveyor, taxable livestock, plantation maps, surveying papers, plantation surveys, plantation layout, cartographic style, boiling house, ofa plan, curing house, brick mould, carrying grass, provision grounds, cane pieces, proportional compasses, trash house, registration returns, coffee fields, cartographic evidence, sugar estates, negro houses
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Thomas Harrison, James Robertson, Lucky Valley, Drax Hall, Spanish Town, Edward Long, National Library of Jamaica, Silver Grove, Creighton Hall, William Beckford, Worthy Park, Amity Hall, Ellis Caymanas, John Rome, Simon Taylor, Spring Plain, Blue Mountains, British West Indies, Duckenfield Hall, Golden Grove, Green Park, Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica Journal, New York, Passage Fort
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