This important book provides a fascinating insight into the conceptual under-pinnings of the theory of plantation economy initiated by Lloyd Best and Kari Levit
The proceedings of a conference on Caribbean slavery and British capitalism are recorded in this volume. Convened in 1984, the conference considered the scholar
This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to T
"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they
This volume presents papers by George Beckford which cover topics ranging from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of man space,