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A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements towards political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. In this second edition, Higman covers the political, social, and environmental developments of the last decade, offering sections on insular politics, Cuban communism, earthquakes, hurricanes, climate change, resource ecologies, epidemics, identity and reparations. Written in a lively and accessible style, yet current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.

Cover -- Flatness -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- One: Conceptualizing Flatness -- Two: The Dimensions of Flatness -- Three: Flatness in Earth History -- Four: Very Flat Places -- Five: Flattening the World -- Six: Level Playing Fields -- Seven: Flat Materials -- Eight: Pictorial Flattening -- Nine: Future Flatness -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index

"Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. Charts the changing technologies that have increased crop yields, enabled the industrial processing and preservation of food, and made transportation possible over great distances Considers social attitudes towards food, religious prohibitions, health and nutrition, and the politics of distribution Offers a fresh understanding of world history through the discussion of food"--

"Plantation Jamaica analyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficiency and impact on Jamaica during slavery and freedom. Meticulous research based on a variety of sources, including the attorneys' letters, plantation papers and slave registration records, provides rich quantitative and literary data describing the attorneys' role, status, range of activities and demographic characteristics. Higman charts both the extent of absentee ownership and the complex structure of the managerial hierarchy that stretched across the Atlantic. Detailed case studies compare the attorney Simon Taylor's management of Golden Grove Estate in the decade before the American Revolution and Isaac Jackson's control of Montpelier in the years immediately follwoing the abolition of slavery."--Jacket

The slave trade to Jamaica, 1702-1808 / Richard B. Sheridan -- Slavery in three West Indian town / N.A.T. Hall -- Tobago and British Imperial Authority, 1793-1802 / K.O. Lawrence -- The opposition to Crown Colony Government in Trinidad before and after Emancipation, 1813-46 / Carl C. Campbell -- The birthday of our race / Bridget Brereton -- "Vox populi": the St. Vincent riots and disturbances of 1862 / Woodville K. Marshall -- Domestic service in Jamaica, since 1750 / B.W. Higman -- From hellshire to healthshire / Frank F. Taylor -- Staple exports and the mercantile sector in the Dominican Republic, 1900-16 / Patrick Bryan

In the period 1901-45 Australian governments sought to increase the nation's domestic service workforce through immigration while confining that immigration to British sources. Implementation of the White Australia policy resulted in an active deportation of household workers, particularly in the tropical north. In spite of broad acceptance of race-based immigration restrictions as a national ideal, calls came from the tropical and pastoral margins for a relaxation specific to domestic service in order to encourage white women to settle in remote areas. Proponents of non-British immigration argued that such servants would enable the long-term achievement of White Australia but they met firm resistance. (Original abstract)