The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492

List of illustrations Preface Notes and abbreviations 1. The environment 2. Aboriginal peoples: settlement and culture 3. Spanish intrusion and colonisation 4. Early northwest European plantations 5. Northwest European sugar estates: the formative period, 1645 to 1665 6. The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: I General development and trade 7. The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: II Sugar production, regional population growth, and the slave-white ratios 8. The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: III Population: social characteristics, migration and the growth of towns 9. The extension of the West Indian sugar estate economy, 1665 to 1833: IV Agricultural innovation and environmental change 10. Post-1833 adjustments: the period to 1900 11. Twentieth-century trends, and conclusions Notes References.