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Online-Ressource (404 p.)
ISBN:
9780817310936
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This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities. Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in the Caribbean. While richer nations, particularly the United States, may view the Caribbean today as merely a place for sun and fun, the island colonies were at one time far more important and lucrative to their European empire countries than their North American counterparts. From the 15th to the 19th ce
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Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Part I: Historical Archaeology in the Caribbean; 1 Historical Archaeology in the Colonial Spanish Caribbean; 2 Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies: Recent Research in Guadeloupe; 3 Historical Archaeology in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba; 4 Historical Archaeology in the British Caribbean; Part II: Caribbean Landscapes; 5 Time Lines: Changing Settlement Patterns on St. Eustatius; 6 A Venue for Autonomy: Archaeology of a Changing Cultural Landscape, the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands
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7 "Getting the Essence of It": Galways Plantation, Montserrat,West IndiesPart III: Caribbean Cultures; 8 Creolization in Seventeenth-Century Barbados: Two Case Studies; 9 "Negroe Houses Built of Stone Besides Others Watl'd + Plaistered": The Creation of a Bahamian Tradition; 10 Methodist Intentions and African Sensibilities: The Victory of African Consumerism over Planter Paternalism at a Bahamian Plantation; Bibliography; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817313302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817310936
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Island Lives : Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Language:
English
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