Title Details
312 Pages
24 x 17 cm
142 b/w, 52 line illus.
Series: Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series
Series Vol. Number:
11
Imprint: Boydell Press
The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean
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New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.
This volume brings together new research on the archaeology of the colonial landscape of the Caribbean. It focusses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the British Caribbean: notably Bermuda, Jamaica, Florida, Barbados, Antigua, and especially St. Kitts and Nevis. Chapters cover a wide range of landscapes - domestic, military and industrial - and interests, including the archaeology and architecture of African-Caribbean slavery and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications and trade.
This volume brings together new research on the archaeology of the colonial landscape of the Caribbean. It focusses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the British Caribbean: notably Bermuda, Jamaica, Florida, Barbados, Antigua, and especially St. Kitts and Nevis. Chapters cover a wide range of landscapes - domestic, military and industrial - and interests, including the archaeology and architecture of African-Caribbean slavery and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications and trade.
Preface - Roger Leech
1. Caribbean Colonial Cartography: Exploring the Paper Landscape - Gillian Hutchinson
2. Tropical Similarities Found in Military Barracks, Hospitals and Other Structures in the West Indies and British Florida Parishes - Philippe Oszuscik
3. "Come Hell or High Water": Architectural Responses to Natural Disaster in the Early British Caribbean - Louis P. Nelson
4. London, Capital of Empire - Some Archaeological Reflections - Geoff Egan and Nigel Jeffries
5. Changing Technology in the West Indian Sugar Industry, 16501920: A Visual Introduction - Phil Dunning
6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Gerald F. Schroedl
6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Todd M. Ahlman
7. An Archaeological Survey of Sugar Plantations in St Kitts, 2004 and 2005 - Robert Philpott and Jon Brett
8. The St Kitts Scenic Train: Journey into an Island's Heritage - William C. Found
9. Jamestown, Nevis: Fact, Fiction, and Fable - Carter L. Hudgins and Eric Klingelhofer and Roger Leech and David Higgins
10. Observations on the European Ceramics from Nevis - David Barker
11. A Caribbean Context for the World-System: A Case Study in 17th and 18th Century Economic and Social Interdependency - Marco Meniketti
12. The Colonial Landscape of Mountravers and Adjacent Plantations - Roger Leech
1. Caribbean Colonial Cartography: Exploring the Paper Landscape - Gillian Hutchinson
2. Tropical Similarities Found in Military Barracks, Hospitals and Other Structures in the West Indies and British Florida Parishes - Philippe Oszuscik
3. "Come Hell or High Water": Architectural Responses to Natural Disaster in the Early British Caribbean - Louis P. Nelson
4. London, Capital of Empire - Some Archaeological Reflections - Geoff Egan and Nigel Jeffries
5. Changing Technology in the West Indian Sugar Industry, 16501920: A Visual Introduction - Phil Dunning
6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Gerald F. Schroedl
6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Todd M. Ahlman
7. An Archaeological Survey of Sugar Plantations in St Kitts, 2004 and 2005 - Robert Philpott and Jon Brett
8. The St Kitts Scenic Train: Journey into an Island's Heritage - William C. Found
9. Jamestown, Nevis: Fact, Fiction, and Fable - Carter L. Hudgins and Eric Klingelhofer and Roger Leech and David Higgins
10. Observations on the European Ceramics from Nevis - David Barker
11. A Caribbean Context for the World-System: A Case Study in 17th and 18th Century Economic and Social Interdependency - Marco Meniketti
12. The Colonial Landscape of Mountravers and Adjacent Plantations - Roger Leech
"An important and ambitious book...attractively-produced [and] generously illustrated." TRANSACTIONS, BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
"The excellently illustrated The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean provides several useful studies and innovative arguments, as well as some excellent primary data that will be useful to other archaeologists, and it is a welcome addition to the historical archaeology of the Caribbean." John M. Chenoweth, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Journal of British Studies
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Title Details
312 Pages
2.4 x 1.7 cm
142 b/w, 52 line illus.
Series: Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series
Series Vol. Number:
11
Imprint: Boydell Press
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