The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492

by David Watts

Book Overview

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted. Dr Watts shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521386519
• ISBN13: 9780521386517
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"