An archaeology of social space
Subtitle: analyzing coffee plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains
By: James A. Delle.
Series: Contributions to global historical archaeology
Publisher: Plenum Press; Plenum Publishing Corporation
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Coffee industry -- Jamaica -- Yallahs River Watershed -- History; Plantations -- Jamaica -- Yallahs River Watershed -- History; Coffee plantation workers -- Jamaica -- Yallahs River Watershed -- History; Slavery -- Jamaica -- History; Jamaica -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; Jamaica -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Description: In An Archaeology of Social Space, James A. Delle examines the cognitive and material records of spatial design and use - including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises - of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica.

Using the data collected from these sources, he considers such issues as: The rise and fall of the Jamaican coffee industry, and how this fluctuation was influenced by events in the larger world economy; how economic changes resulted in the creation of new social and material spaces in highland Jamaica; and the ways in which these spaces served as an arena for the negotiation of power in a plantation context, both before and after the abolition of slavery.

Professionals, researchers, and students in archaeology, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics, will find this a unique and extremely valuable work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.