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The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System

Smith, Frederick H.
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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..."
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2016-01-01
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Brill
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Anthropology
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https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09001010
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