Archaeology in Dominica : everyday ecologies and economies at Morne Patate / edited by Mark W. Hauser and Diane Wallman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauser, Mark W., editor.

Wallman, Diane, editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Ripley P. Bullen Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Dominica.

Archaeology.

Slavery--Dominica--History.

Slavery.

Dominica--History.

Dominica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This volume examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation, helping document the under-represented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Everyday Economies and Ecologies of Plantation Life / Mark W. Hauser

Dominica as an Evolving Landscape: Evidence of Changing Social, Political, and Economic Organization in the Eighteenth Century / Tessa Murphy and Mark W. Hauser

Tracing the Postemancipation Landscape of Dominica?s Lime Industry / Samantha Ellens

Building an Archaeological Chronology for Morne Patate / Lynsey A. Bates, Jillian E. Galle, and Fraser D. Neiman

Morne Patate House Yards, 1750-1900: An Overview / Khadene K. Harris

A Carbet among the Cabins: The Significance and Symbolism of a Possible Kalinago Household at Morne Patate / Lennox Honychurch, Diane Wallman, and Mark W. Hauser

Sourcing Coarse Earthenware at Morne Patate: The Impacts of French Colonialism and Local Exchange / Lindsay Bloch and Elizabeth Bollwerk

The Environmental Archaeology of Subsistence and the Socioecological Landscape at Morne Patate / Diane Wallman and Sarah Oas

Conclusion: Resilience and Capacity Building in the Age of Empires / William F. Keegan

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-160-3