2 Ergebnisse.

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population, the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves, and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted. Dr Watts shows ...

Whether recounting the decline and death of a dear friend or poking holes in the faulty logic of an insurance company underling, this title lays bare the nobility and weakness, generosity and churlishness of human nature.