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Title:
The colonial landscape of the British Caribbean / edited by Roger Leech and Pamela Leech.
Publisher:
The Boydell Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxix, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Landscape archaeology--West Indies, British.
West Indies, British--Antiquities.
West Indies, British--History--17th century.
West Indies, British--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Antiquities.--America--Antiquities.
Archeologie du paysage--Antilles britanniques.
Antiquities.
British colonies.
Landscape archaeology.
America.
West Indies--British West Indies.
1600-1799
History.
Case studies.
Etudes de cas.
Other Authors:
Leech, Roger, editor.
Leech, Pamela, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The colonial landscape of mountravers and adjacent plantations / Roger H. Leech. Tropical similarities found in military barracks, hospitals and other structure in the West Indies and British Florida Parishes / Philippe Oszuscik -- 'Come hell or high water' : architectural responses to natural disaster in the early British Caribbean / Louis P. Nelson -- London, capital of empire - some archaeological reflections / Geoff Egan with a foreword by Nigel Jeffries -- Changing technology in the West Indian sugar industry, 1650-1920 : a visual introduction / Phil Dunning -- Archaeological evidence for enslaved African laborers from two locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies / Gerald F. Schroedl and Todd M. Ahlman -- An archaeological survey of sugar plantations in St Kitts, 2004 and 2005 / Robert A. Philpott and Jon Brett -- The St. Kitts scenic train : journey into an island's heritage / William C. Found -- Jamestown, Nevis : fact, fiction, and fable / Carter Hudgins, Eric Klingelhofer, Roger H. Leech, and David Higgins -- Observations on the European ceramics from Nevis / David Barker -- A Caribbean context for the world-system : A case study in 17th- and 18th-century economic and social interdependency / Marco Meniketti -- The colonial landscape of mountravers and adjacent plantations / Roger H. Leech.
Summary:
"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."--Publisher's description.
Series:
The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology monograph ; 11
ISBN:
1783275650
9781783275656
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1160026873
LCCN:
2021287458
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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