Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean: 11 (Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series, 11) (en Inglés)
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This volume brings together new research on the archaeology of the colonial landscape of the Caribbean. It focusses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the British Caribbean: notably Bermuda, Jamaica, Florida, Barbados, Antigua, and especially St. Kitts and Nevis. Chapters cover a wide range of landscapes - domestic, military and industrial - and interests, including the archaeology and architecture of African-Caribbean slavery and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications and trade.Table of ContentsPreface - Roger Leech1. Caribbean Colonial Cartography: Exploring the Paper Landscape - Gillian Hutchinson2. Tropical Similarities Found in Military Barracks, Hospitals and Other Structures in the West Indies and British Florida Parishes - Philippe Oszuscik3. "Come Hell or High Water": Architectural Responses to Natural Disaster in the Early British Caribbean - Louis P. Nelson4. London, Capital of Empire - Some Archaeological Reflections - Geoff Egan and Nigel Jeffries5. Changing Technology in the West Indian Sugar Industry, 16501920: A Visual Introduction - Phil Dunning6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Gerald F. Schroedl6. Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies - Todd M. Ahlman7. An Archaeological Survey of Sugar Plantations in St Kitts, 2004 and 2005 - Robert Philpott and Jon Brett8. The St Kitts Scenic Train: Journey into an Island's Heritage - William C. Found9. Jamestown, Nevis: Fact, Fiction, and Fable - Carter L. Hudgins and Eric Klingelhofer and Roger Leech and David Higgins10. Observations on the European Ceramics from Nevis - David Barker11. A Caribbean Context for the World-System: A Case Study in 17th and 18th Century Economic and Social Interdependency - Marco Meniketti12. The Colonial Landscape of Mountravers and Adjacent Plantations - Roger Leech