Centring the Periphery: Chaos, Order, and the Ethnohistory of Dominica

acres administration African agricultural Allfrey Amerindian Assembly banana production Barbados became Boromé Britain British British West Indies Carib Carib Reserve Caribbean cash Castle Bruce cent centre their world centring strategy century chaos chaos theory colonial Columbus communities context Cracknell 1973 Craton created crop culture developed domination Duchilleau economic elected emancipation emerged energy English entropic entropic effects environment estates European ex-slaves exploitation exports force France free coloureds Geest Grenada Guadeloupe Hispaniola history of Dominica House hundred important increased interests labour land Lesser Antilles lime major maroons Martinique metropole metropolitan centre monocrop mulatto mulatto élite Negroes observes owners Party peasantry peasants period periphery plantation planters political population profits region Roseau settle settlement settlers ships slave trade slavery social society Spanish St Johnston structure subsistence sugar production Taíno and Arawak territories tion unfree labour villages voyage West Indian West Indies Williams