Atlantic Empires
British Empire
Caribbean studies
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Colonialism
Dominica
environment
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everyday life
Historical Archaeology
Household Archaeology
inequality
landscape
Plantation Economy
relational ontologies
Slavery
Product details
- ISBN 9781683401605
- Weight: 538g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Archaeology in Dominica examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation that produced sugar, coffee, and provisions. Focusing on household archaeology, this volume helps document the underrepresented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.
Contributors discuss how enslaved and free people were entangled in shifting economic and ecological systems during the plantation's 200-year history, most notably the introduction of sugarcane as an export commodity. Analyzing historical records, the landscape geography of the plantation, and material remains from the residences of laborers, the authors synthesize extensive data from this site and compare it to that of other excavations across the Eastern Caribbean. Using historical archaeology to investigate the political ecology of Morne Patate opens up a deeper understanding of the environmental legacies of colonial empires, as well as the long-term impacts of plantation agriculture on the Caribbean region and its people.
A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
Contributors discuss how enslaved and free people were entangled in shifting economic and ecological systems during the plantation's 200-year history, most notably the introduction of sugarcane as an export commodity. Analyzing historical records, the landscape geography of the plantation, and material remains from the residences of laborers, the authors synthesize extensive data from this site and compare it to that of other excavations across the Eastern Caribbean. Using historical archaeology to investigate the political ecology of Morne Patate opens up a deeper understanding of the environmental legacies of colonial empires, as well as the long-term impacts of plantation agriculture on the Caribbean region and its people.
A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
Mark W. Hauser, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, is the author of An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.
Diane Wallman is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida.
Diane Wallman is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida.
