Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment Under Colonialism

by Mark W. Hauser

Book Overview

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and people

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733

Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295748729
• ISBN13: 9780295748726
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher