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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460312803321

Autore

Meniketti Marco G. <1954->

Titolo

Sugar cane capitalism and environmental transformation : an archaeology of colonial Nevis, West Indies / / Marco G. Meniketti ; cover design Michele Myatt Quinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8910-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Disciplina

972.973

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Nevis

Electronic books.

Nevis Antiquities

Nevis History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.