An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Author:   James A. Delle ,  Mark P. Leone
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Edition:   1998 ed.
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9780306458507


Pages:   243
Publication Date:   30 April 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   James A. Delle ,  Mark P. Leone
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1998 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.260kg
ISBN:  

9780306458507


ISBN 10:   0306458500
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   30 April 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical Background: Capitalism, Crisis, and Social Space.- 3. The Historical Background: The Jamaican Political Economy, 1790–1865.- 4. The Focus of Analysis: Coffee Plantations in the Yallahs Drainage.- 5. Analyzing Cognitive Space: The Imagined Spaces of the Plantation Theorists.- 6. The Spatialities of Coffee Plantations in the Yallahs River Drainage: 1790–1834.- 7. Postemancipation Developments: 1834–1865.- 8. Epilogue.- References.

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Valuable...This theoretically sophisticated work belongs in serious anthropology, geography, plantation, and Caribbean studies collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice (November 1998) This volume, a reworking of Delle's doctoral dissertation, is published in the Contribution to Global Archaeology Series. In Chapter 1, Delle lays out a Marxist approach. Following James Deetz, he defines historical archaeology as the archaeology of capitalism, of the study of European colonialism. Delle reviews previous spatial analyses of colonialism, including contributions to community studies and garden, landscape, and plantation archaeology. He places his work within the latter category: a study of the negotiation of landscapes and spaces on Jamaican coffee plantations from 1790, when coffee was first produced in the Blue Mountains, until 1865, by which time coffee production in this region had ceased. Not coincidentally, during this period the British slave trade was banned and slavery abolished.' Journal of Anthropological Research Overall, Delle's work is a well-written and interestingly conceived study in an area and industry that has received little attention. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs, line drawings, historical lithographs, and historic maps.' Historical Archaeology, 34: 2


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