Ebook: An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Author: James A. Delle (auth.)
- Tags: Archaeology, Ecology
- Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be an academic topic that has come to be known as landscape archaeology. Landscape archaeology considers the planned spaces around living places. The topic is big, comprehensive, and new within historical archaeology. Its fundamen tal insight is that in the early modern and modern worlds everything within view could be made into money. Seeing occurs in space and from 1450, or a little before, everything that could be seen could, potentially, be measured. The measuring-and the accompanying culture of record ing called a scriptural economy-became a way of controlling people in space, for a profit. Dr. Delle thus explores maps, local philosophies of settlement, town dwelling, housing, and the actual condition of plantations and their buildings now, so as to describe coffee-Jamaica from 1790-1860.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Theoretical Background....Pages 23-43
The Historical Background....Pages 45-66
The Focus of Analysis....Pages 67-97
Analyzing Cognitive Space....Pages 99-117
The Spatialities of Coffee Plantations in the Yallahs River Drainage 1790–1834....Pages 119-167
Postemancipation Developments 1834–1865....Pages 169-211
Epilogue....Pages 213-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-243
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Theoretical Background....Pages 23-43
The Historical Background....Pages 45-66
The Focus of Analysis....Pages 67-97
Analyzing Cognitive Space....Pages 99-117
The Spatialities of Coffee Plantations in the Yallahs River Drainage 1790–1834....Pages 119-167
Postemancipation Developments 1834–1865....Pages 169-211
Epilogue....Pages 213-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-243
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