Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy by B. W. Higman |
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"Barry W. Higman's magnificent study marks a turning point in the historiography of Jamaica." -American Historical Review "A unique and invaluable scholarly analysis, superbly illustrated, of Jamaican settlement history during the high tide, ebb and aftermath of the colonial plantation economy." -Journal of Economic History --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Jamaica Surveyed was first published in Jamaica in 1988 and was not widely available to a worldwide market. This new reprint is now available and brings to the public a representative sample of the enormous collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. The complete collection, unique in the Caribbean, provides information on over twenty thousand landholdings in Jamaica and is one of the most extensive collections of plantation maps in the Americas. Jamaica Surveyed explores the diversity of agricultural activities in the island and the changing patterns of land use during the period. The familiar sugar estates are included but so are the coffee and pimento plantations and livestock pens. Plantation villages, gardens, grounds and great houses are featured, as well as post-emancipation settlement patterns. What emerges is a fascinating picture of Jamaica as it was in the first phase of large-scale settlement and as it changed over time in response to economic forces. B. W. Higman combines cartographic and documentary evidence to produce an unusual work of historical scholarship of interest to historians, geographers, cartographers, and all students of Caribbean life and culture. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Barry W. Higman's magnificent study marks a turning point in the historiography of Jamaica." -American Historical Review "A unique and invaluable scholarly analysis, superbly illustrated, of Jamaican settlement history during the high tide, ebb and aftermath of the colonial plantation economy." -Journal of Economic History --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Jamaica Surveyed was first published in Jamaica in 1988 and was not widely available to a worldwide market. This new reprint is now available and brings to the public a representative sample of the enormous collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. The complete collection, unique in the Caribbean, provides information on over twenty thousand landholdings in Jamaica and is one of the most extensive collections of plantation maps in the Americas. Jamaica Surveyed explores the diversity of agricultural activities in the island and the changing patterns of land use during the period. The familiar sugar estates are included but so are the coffee and pimento plantations and livestock pens. Plantation villages, gardens, grounds and great houses are featured, as well as post-emancipation settlement patterns. What emerges is a fascinating picture of Jamaica as it was in the first phase of large-scale settlement and as it changed over time in response to economic forces. B. W. Higman combines cartographic and documentary evidence to produce an unusual work of historical scholarship of interest to historians, geographers, cartographers, and all students of Caribbean life and culture. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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- Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography) by David Buisseret on page 133, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America by Professor John E. Crowley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture by Kathleen Monteith on page 109, and page 304
- Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors (Public Record Office Readers' Guide, No. 11) (Readers Guides) by Guy Grannum in Back Matter
- Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado by D. Graham Burnett in Back Matter
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