Raising cane: Sugar, people and the environment in nineteenth-century Antigua, West Indies.

Title: Raising cane: Sugar, people and the environment in nineteenth-century Antigua, West Indies.
Identifier: AAI3330498
identifier: 3330498
Creator: Gonzalez-Scollard, Edith.
Contributor: Adviser: H. Arthur Bankoff
Date: 2008
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Archaeology
Abstract: The introduction of sugar cane to the fragile seasonal tropical ecosystem in Antigua had a devastating effect on the environment. This project uses an historical ecology perspective to investigate these environmental changes, which occurred as a result of sugar production, and their effects on the culture of Antigua. Betty's Hope Estate was one of many large-scale sugar producers on Antigua. The remains of this plantation provide the data for the study of the people who worked and lived in Antigua during the rise and decline of the sugar empires. The changing lifeways of the people at Betty's Hope will be examined through analysis of historical records and archaeological materials.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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