B. W. Higman
Autore di A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Sull'Autore
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 altro (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 meno
Opere di B. W. Higman
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Colonization and domestic service : historical and contemporary perspectives (2018) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Higman, Barry William
- Data di nascita
- 1943-09-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Attività lavorative
- historian
- Organizzazioni
- Australian National University
- Breve biografia
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 49