Document Type
Book Review
Department/Program
Anthropology
Journal Title
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
Pub Date
2016
Publisher
Brill
Volume
90
Issue
2-1
First Page
100
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Abstract
Excerpt from publication: "This interesting book explores the landscape of a Jamaican coffee estate through an explicitly Marxist lens that emphasizes power, surveillance, settlement patterns, and the spatial manifestations of plantation social relations. Drawing on archaeological evidence, plantation records, GIS data, and colonial maps, James Delle shows how changing modes of production from the period of Spanish colonization, through plantation slavery and the postemancipation rise of peasantries, altered the Jamaican landscape..."
Recommended Citation
Smith, Frederick H., The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System (2016). New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 90(2-1), 100-101.
https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09001010
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09001010
