Colonial Caribbean - Landscapes of Power in Jamaica''s Plantation System

Informationen zum Autor James A. Delle is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He is former chief editor and current member of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology editorial board, and currently associate editor of Historical Archaeology. He is a member of the executive board of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology. Delle is author of An Archaeology of Social Space; co-editor of Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender and Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica; and editor of Limits of Tyranny: Archaeological Perspectives on the Struggle against New World Slavery. Delle has published articles in the Journal of Social Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Northeast Historical Archaeology, the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, and Archaeologies. Klappentext The Colonial Caribbean presents an archaeological analysis of Jamaican coffee plantation landscapes. Zusammenfassung The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of Jamaican coffee plantation landscapes at the turn of the nineteenth century. Framed by Marxist theory! the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Landscapes of power in colonial Jamaica; 2. His majesty's island: the colonial world of plantation Jamaica; 3. The plantation mode of production; 4. A class for itself: regional landscapes of the planter class; 5. Contradictions and dialectics: village landscapes of the enslaved; 6. Dialectics and social change: plantation landscapes after slavery; 7. Plantation landscapes in comparative perspective; 8. Conclusion.

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• Authors: James Delle, James a. Delle, James A. (Kutztown University Delle, Delle James A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2014
• EAN: 9780521744331
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74433-1
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Case Studies in Early Societies; Case Studies in Early Societie; Case Studies in Early Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Caribbean islands, Colonialism and imperialism, Archaeology by period / region, History of the Americas, Landscape Archaeology