Centring the periphery : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica / Patrick L. Baker
1994, 1st edition. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, illustrated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #421569
ISBN: 0773511342
Physical description; (xx, 251 pages) : illustrations. Contents; 1. Theoretical Questions -- 2. Indigenous Peoples and Their Contact Experience -- 3. European Discovery and Settlement -- 4. Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts -- 5. Slavery and Emancipation -- 6. A Dominican Peasantry -- 7. The Rise of the Mulatto Elite -- 8. Capitalizing a Subsistence Economy -- 9. Democracy: Bringing Decision Making Home -- 10. Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Years Later: Independence? Subjects; HISTORY Latin America Mexico. HISTORY Caribbean & West Indies General. Chaotic behavior in systems. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. Chaotic behavior in systems. Ethnohistory Dominica. Dominica History. Dominica Social conditions.
Price: €21.95