Sunday, August 22, 2010

Peasants, Plantations and Rural Communities in the Caribbean

Cross, Malcolm & Arnaud Marks (Ed.): Peasants, plantations and rural communities in the Caribbean Guildford: University of Surrey and Leiden: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, 1979.

From the Preface and Acknowledgments:

Eight of the ten papers in this book were originally prepared for the Third Caribbean Colloquium organized by the Universities of Surrey and Sussex in cooperation with the Department of Caribbean Studies of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. The title for the book also comes from that meeting, which took place in Leiden in December, 1977.


Papers:
Gad J. Heuman - "The struggle for the settler vote: politics and the franchise in post-emancipation Jamaica"; David Nicholls - "Rural protest and peasant revolt in Haiti; David Harrison - "The changing fortunes of a Trinidad peasantry"; Jean Besson - "Symbolic aspects of land in the Caribbean: The tenure and transmission of land rights among Caribbean peasantry"; Wout van den Bor - "Peasantry in isolation: the agrarian development of St. Eustatius and Saba"; David Lowenthal & Colin Clarke - "Common lands, common aims: the distinctive Barbudan community"; Eric Hanley - "Mechanised rice cultivation: the experience of an East Indian community in Guyana"; Henk Luning & Prakash Sital - "The economic transformation of small holder rice farming in Surinam"; Michael Allen - "Sugar and survival: the retention of economic power by white elites in Barbados and Martinique"; Jan van Huis - "Marketing problems and agricultural extension in Nickerie (Surinam): a stimulant to an alternative strategy"

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