Caribbean Land and Development Revisited (Revised edition) Studies of the Americas

The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors. This Collection Of Eighteen Chapters Plus An Editorial Introduction Brings Together Studies Of Land And Development Throughout The Caribbean Region By Historians, Anthropologists, Geographers, Land Use Planners, A Sociologist And A Human Rights Lawyer. Themes Include Post-emancipation Access To Land For The Former Slaves, Soil Erosion, Crop Production, Agro-biodiversity, Tourism, Fishing, Migration, Land Tenure, Landscape And Environment, And Various Aspects Of Land Policy, Planning And Management. The Chapters Cover A Range Of Territories In The Hispanic, Francophone, English-speaking And Dutch Caribbean. This Volume Is A Sequel To The Editors' Earlier Ground-breaking Book Land And Development In The Caribbean (macmillan, 1987) And, With A New Cast Of Authors And An Entirely New Collection Of Essays, Provides Fresh Perspectives On Caribbean Land And Development Based On Both Historical And Contemporary Research. Introduction / Jean Besson And Janet Momsen -- Historical Perspectives On Land And Crop Production -- The Importance Of The 1897 British Royal Commission / Bonham C. Richardson -- The Colonial Office And Soil Conservation In The British Caribbean, 1938-1950 / Lawrence S. Grossman -- Domestic Food Production In Guadeloupe In World War Ii / Glenroy Taitt -- Cuba's Farmers' Markets In The Special Period, 1990-1995 / Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen, And Debbie A. Niemeier -- Policy, Planning And Management -- Land, Development And Indigenous Rights In Suriname: The Role Of International Human Rights Law / Ellen-rose Kambel -- The Management Of State Lands In Trinidad And Tobago / J. David Stanfield And A.a. Wijetunga -- The Participation Paradox: Stories From St Lucia / Jonathan Pugh -- Land Disputes And Development Activity In The Dominican Republic / Donald Macleod -- Land Policy In Jamaica In The Decade After Agenda 21 / Learie A. Miller And David Barker -- Land For The Peasantry? -- Squatting As A Strategy For Land Settlement And Sustainable Development / Jean Besson -- The Triumph Of The Commons: Barbuda Belongs To All Barbudans Together / David Lowenthal And Colin Clarke -- The Contested Existence Of A Peasantry In Martinique: Scientific Discourses Controversies And Evidence / Christine Chivallon -- The Waxing And Waning Of Land For The Peasantry In Barbados / Janet Momsen -- Agro-biodiversity As An Environmental Management Tool In Small-scale Farming Landscapes: Implications For Agrochemical Use / Balfour Spence And Elizabeth Thomas-hope -- Landscape, Migration And Development -- Arboreal Landscapes Of Power And Resistance / Mimi Sheller -- From The Pre-colonial To The Virtual: The Scope And Scape Of Land, Landuse, And Landloss On Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner -- Leave To Come Back: The Importance Of Family Land In A Transnational Caribbean Community / Beth Mills -- Collateral And Achievement: Land And Caribbean Migration / Margaret Byron. Edited By Jean Besson And Janet Momsen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 The Importance of the 1897 British Royal Commission....Pages 17-28 The Colonial Office and Soil Conservation in the British Caribbean, 1938–1950....Pages 29-40 Domestic Food Production in Guadeloupe in World War II....Pages 41-52 Cuba’s Farmers’ Markets in the “Special Period,” 1990–1995....Pages 53-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Land, Development, and Indigenous Rights in Suriname: The Role of International Human Rights Law....Pages 69-80 The Management of State Lands in Trinidad and Tobago....Pages 81-93 The Participation Paradox: Stories from St. Lucia....Pages 95-105 Land Disputes and Development Activity in the Dominican Republic....Pages 107-117 Land Policy in Jamaica in the Decade after Agenda 21....Pages 119-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 “Squatting” as a Strategy for Land Settlement and Sustainable Development....Pages 135-146 The Triumph of the Commons: Barbuda Belongs to All Barbudans Together....Pages 147-158 The Contested Existence of a Peasantry in Martinique: Scientific Discourses, Controversies, and Evidence....Pages 159-173 The Waxing and Waning of Land for the Peasantry in Barbados....Pages 175-187 Agrobiodiversity as an Environmental Management Tool in Small-Scale Farming Landscapes: Implications for Agrochemical Use....Pages 189-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance....Pages 207-218 From the Pre-Colonial to the Virtual: The Scope and Scape of Land, Landuse, and Landloss on Montserrat....Pages 219-232 “Leave to Come Back”: The Importance of Family Land in a Transnational Caribbean Community....Pages 233-241 Collateral and Achievement: Land and Caribbean Migration....Pages 243-253 Back Matter....Pages 255-276 Presents an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. This book focusses on land and development, providing perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors 'Caribbean Land and Development Revisited' is an interdisciplinary collection of 15 essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean