The Colonial Caribbean
The Colonial Caribbean
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
Product details
August 2014Paperback
9780521744331
266 pages
228 × 152 × 15 mm
0.39kg
48 b/w illus. 16 maps 7 tables
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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.
