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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.Watts, David is the author of 'West Indies Patterns of Development, Culture, and Environmental Change Since 1492', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521386517 and ISBN 0521386519.
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