Publisher Fact Sheet A paradise for nature-lovers, Dominica has thick forests, towering mountains, aquamarine seas, & hundreds of waterfalls & hot springs -- plus the last refuge of the Carib Indians. St. Lucia is among the lushest & most beautiful of the Caribbean islands and, as in Dominica, the residents speak English. Island accommodations are often secluded hideaways popular with honeymooners & naturalists.
Lush, tropical landscapes define this area of the Caribbean. From the low-key and traditional Dominica to the spectacular mountains of St Lucia, there is much to explore. This Footprint Handbook provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of these accessible and rewarding Caribbean destinations.* Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around St Lucia & Dominica.* Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and relax.* Includes information on tour operators and activities, from diving in turquoise waters to admiring the French colonial architecture.* Detailed maps for St Lucia & Dominica.* Slim enough to fit in your pocket.With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint's St Lucia & Dominica Handbook (Includes Fort-de-France (Martinique), Castries, Soufri�re & Roseau) provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of the Caribbean's most undiscovered regions.
Lush, tropical landscapes define this area of the Caribbean. From the low-key and traditional Dominica to the spectacular mountains of St Lucia, there is much to explore. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of these accessible and rewarding Caribbean destinations. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around St Lucia & Dominica. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and relax. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from diving in turquoise waters to admiring the French colonial architecture. • Detailed maps for St Lucia & Dominica. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus St Lucia & Dominica (Includes Fort-de-France (Martinique), Castries, Soufrière & Roseau) provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of the Caribbean’s most undiscovered regions.
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere_capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract farming and political ecology. First, he analyzes the process of deskilling and the associated significance of control by capital and the state over peasant labor. Second, he investigates the impacts of contract farming for export on domestic food production and food import dependency. And third, he examines the often misunderstood problem of pesticide misuse. Grossman's findings lead to a reconsideration of broader debates concerning the relevance of research on industrial restructuring and globalization for the analysis of agrarian change. Most important, his work emphasizes that we must pay greater attention to the fundamental significance of the "environmental rootedness" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming.
By approaching the colonial Caribbean as an interconnected region, Tessa Murphy recasts small islands as the site of broader contests over Indigenous dominion, racial belonging, economic development, and colonial subjecthood.
In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society. The Maroons, runaways who escaped slavery, formed their own community on the Caribbean island. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica, little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap. Honychurch takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social, and economic impact of the Maroons and details their struggles and victories.
