Look Inside The Colonial Caribbean

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

Part of Case Studies in Early Societies

Author: James A. Delle, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania

Date Published: May 2014
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521744331

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The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of individual house and yard areas located within the villages of enslaved workers. Delle argues that a Marxist approach to landscape archaeology provides a powerful theoretical framework to understand how the built environment played a direct role in the negotiation of social relations in the colonial Caribbean.
- Uses Marxist theory to understand the archaeological past
- Examines the role of capitalism in the plantation system
- Focuses on landscape archaeology
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Product details
- Date Published: May 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521744331
- length: 266 pages
- copublisher: Cambridge University Press
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- contains: 48 b/w illus. 16 maps 7 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Landscapes of power in colonial Jamaica
2. His majesty's island: the colonial world of plantation Jamaica
3. The plantation mode of production
4. A class for itself: regional landscapes of the planter class
5. Contradictions and dialectics: village landscapes of the enslaved
6. Dialectics and social change: plantation landscapes after slavery
7. Plantation landscapes in comparative perspective
8. Conclusion.
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Author
James A. Delle, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
James A. Delle is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He is former chief editor and current member of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology editorial board, and currently associate editor of Historical Archaeology. He is a member of the executive board of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology. Delle is author of An Archaeology of Social Space; co-editor of Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender and Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica; and editor of Limits of Tyranny: Archaeological Perspectives on the Struggle against New World Slavery. Delle has published articles in the Journal of Social Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Northeast Historical Archaeology, the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, and Archaeologies.