Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation - An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies

Informationen zum Autor Marco G. Meniketti is an associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University and the director of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies. Klappentext In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century "Atlantic Economy,” comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement. Zusammenfassung In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement.

Product details

• Authors: Marco G Meniketti, Marco G. Meniketti
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780817318918
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1891-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethn; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethn
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries