Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1848

Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1848

Author: Kathleen E. A. Monteith

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789766407261

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Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790?1848 is the first comprehensive history of the Jamaican coffee industry, covering a period of rapid expansion and decline. The primary objective is to examine the structure and performance of the industry and to demonstrate the extent to which it contributed to the diversity of the Jamaican economy and society in this period. All of this is examined within the context of a period characterized by significant structural shifts in the then emerging global economy. As a work in economic history, the book is based on solid archival research and econometric analysis. Kathleen E.A. Monteith examines the changing levels of production, trade, productivity, and profitability of the industry and discusses the people involved in the industry, both free and enslaved. A demographic profile of the coffee planters and their familial relationships is established. The work experience of the enslaved men, women and children in the coffee industry, their organization, the nature of their works and their resistance to enslavement are also discussed. The clash of interests between the former enslaved people and coffee planters with respect to labour availability in the industry in the immediate post-slavery period are discussed also. Throughout the book, wherever possible, comparisons are made with other sectors of the Jamaican economy, especially with the sugar industry. Differences are explained in terms of environment, scale and the nature of production. Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790?1848 contributes fresh material and interrogates data in systematic ways not previously undertaken by scholars in this area. Strikingly original are the sections dealing with the backgrounds of the coffee planters, drawing on sources only recently available for exploitation, notably the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership database, family history and genealogical websites, and the sections dealing with profitability. This book compares well with other works in Caribbean history published at this level of scholarship. It has no immediate rivals in its specific field.


An Archaeology of Social Space

An Archaeology of Social Space

Author: James A. Delle

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1475791593

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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.


Jamaica

Jamaica

Author: Tony L. Henthorne

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1665750189

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JAMAICA: Teal blue waters, sandy beaches, scintillating cuisine, globally renown rum and Blue Mountain coffee. One hundred fifty years under Spanish rule and then three hundred years under English dominion. Early spectacular hotels, then spectacular all-inclusives resorts. Hippies came to Negril and made it the “Capital of Casual.” Bob Marley spread reggae music worldwide and became a major tourism promoter for the island adding to the glitz from the English celebrities of the 1950s who came to the North Coast. Errol Flynn, Ian Fleming, and Noel Coward attracted jet setters to the island as did fictional super spy James Bond, Agent 007. Tourism growth and development, measured and conservative, free-flowing and exuberant – all existing in a dynamic, remarkable and one-of-a-kind setting. Jamaica, a cacophony of sights and delights. Ya mon, come to Jamaica, an island paradise that has it all.


The World's Finest

The World's Finest

Author: Norma Benghiat

Publisher: Andersen Press (UK)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9789766371142

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Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is known the world over as one of the most distinguished and delicious coffees. Brimming with a robust aroma and delicate flavour, this coffee is a globally protected certification mark, so that only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labelled Jamaica Blue Mountain®. Named for the region in which it is grown, coffee from Jamaica’s Blue Mountain range, rising to over 7,000 feet above sea level, is the result of the perfect combination of terrain, altitude, soil and rainfall. In The World’s Finest, Norma Benghiat traces the early history of coffee and its journey to the Caribbean. The growing and harvesting techniques are covered as are the plantation houses unique to the island home of Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee. Filled with lavish images depicting the history of coffee and the coffee process in Jamaica and sumptuous photographs of coffee drinks, desserts and even main courses, you will be inspired to seek out this brew to confirm for yourself that it is indeed the world’s finest.


Jamaica

Jamaica

Author: International Fund for Agricultural Development

Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Jamaica

Jamaica

Author: Janet H. Gritzner

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1438105177

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Concise, yet packed with information, these user-friendly volumes are introductions to modern nations of the world.


Author:

Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

Published:

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Jamaica

Jamaica

Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13:

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