B. W. Higman

Autor/a de A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)

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Sobre l'autor

B. W. Higman is the William Keith Hancock Professor of History at Australian National University and Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies. He is the author of ten books on Caribbean history, archaeology, and geography, including Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 mostra'n més (1976, Cambridge; awarded the Bancroft Prize), Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy (2005), and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2008). mostra'n menys

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Obres de B. W. Higman

New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century (1999) 23 exemplars

Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy (1600) 19 exemplars

Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1988) 16 exemplars

How Food Made History (2011) 15 exemplars

Slave population and economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 (1976) 13 exemplars

Slave Populations in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 (1984) 9 exemplars

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2008) 9 exemplars

Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 1729-1788 (2011) 9 exemplars

Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society (2001) 8 exemplars

Flatness (2017) 8 exemplars

Jamaican Place Names (2009) 7 exemplars

Domestic Service in Australia (2002) 7 exemplars

Montpelier, Jamaica : a plantation community in slavery and freedom, 1739-1912 (1998) 5 exemplars

Trade, government and society in Caribbean history 1700-1920: Essays presented to Douglas Hall (1983) 3 exemplars

A Concise History of the Caribbean 1 exemplars

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Obres associades

Colonization and domestic service : historical and contemporary perspectives (2018) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars

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Nom oficial: Higman, Barry William
Data de naixement: 1943-09-30
Gènere: male
Nacionalitat: Australia
Lloc de naixement: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Professions: historian
Organitzacions: Australian National University
Biografia breu: Barry William Higman, BA (Sydney), PhD (Hist) (University of the West Indies), PhD (Geog) (Liverpool)

Currently (2012) at the Australian National University as Professor specialising in the social and economic history of Australia and the Americas, particularly the Caribbean. Current research projects include:

domestic service in Australia
history of occupations in Australia
tropical landscape representation.

Key publications

B. W. Higman (2002) Domestic Service in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
B. W. Higman (2000) Writing West Indian Histories. London: Macmillan.
(1999) Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean. Vol VI of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean. London/Paris: Macmillan/Unesco Publishing.
B. W. Higman (1999) Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
B. W. Higman (1988) Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica.
B. W. Higman (1984) Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
B. W. Higman (1976) Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. New York: Cambridge University Press.