The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies

Merrill, Gordon C., The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies, Mexico City, México: Instituto Pan Americano de Geografía e Historia, 1958.

From the author’s foreword:

This article in its original form was submitted in 1956 to the University of California at Berkeley as a doctoral dissertation in geography. My aim has been to examine the geography of the past in St. Kitts and Nevis, in order to understand more fully the evolution of the cultural landscape of these islands during the more than three centuries since the beginning of European settlement. Colonial life held much in common in all the islands of the British West Indies, and more particularly during the period before emancipation. I present my work as a contribution to our knowledge of the cultural history of the West Indies.