Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation: An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies

by Marco G. Meniketti

Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318917
• ISBN13: 9780817318918
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"