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The West Indies : patterns of development, culture, and environmental change since 1492
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- Summary
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For review see: Roderick A. McDonald, in The economic historic review : a journal of economic and social history, vol. 44, no. 4 (November 1991); p. 765-766.
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- Creator
- David Watts
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First paperback edition
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990, ©1987
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- xxi, 609 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0521386519, 9780521386517, 0521245559, 9780521245555
- OCLC
- ocm25694312
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-585) and index.
- The environment -- Aboriginal peoples: settlements and culture -- Spanish intrusion and colonisation -- Early northwest European plantations -- Northwest European sugar estates: the formative period, 1645 to 1665 -- The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833. I: General development and trade ; II: Sugar production, regional population growth, and the slave-white ratios ; III: Population: social characteristics, migration and the growth of towns ; IV: Agricultural innovation and environmental change -- Post-1833 adjustments: the period to 1900 --Twentieth-century trends, and conclusions