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Index
Aboriginal peoples, 8 - 9, 10, 30
Advice, 115
Africa: African based beliefs and customs,
172 - 173, 220 - 221 ; and JaJa of
Opobo, 97 - 98, 101 ; local chiefs
governing of colonies, 26 ; partition of,
27 ; and socioclimatological theory, 71
Agonostomus monticola (mountain
mullet), 105
Agricultural diversification, 152
Alexander, Charles, 202
Alma, 116
Amazon River, 121, 125
Anderson, Alexander, 177
Anguilla, 29
Antigua, 21, 30, 35, 83, 224
Arawak Indians, 8, 10
Archer, F. B., 161
Arrowroot cultivation, 44, 87, 156 - 157,
189, 223
Australia, 26
Barbados: Barbadians as police con-
stables, 50, 61, 188 ; Barbadians in St
Lucia, 41, 113, 162 ; black workforce
of, 13, 14, 35 - 37, 86, 159 - 160 ; cane
fires in, 153 - 154, 155 ; charcoal
exported to, 179 ; climate of, 67 ; as
coaling station candidate, 111 ; and
colonial political control, 53 - 54 ; and
crop thievery, 190 ; and Cuban
Revolution, 59 ; droughts of, 1, 10,
69, 78, 83 - 84, 152, 159, 162,
164 - 166, 228 ; and easterly trade
winds, 68 - 69 ; and fishing, 124, 125,
130 - 131 ; human-environment
interactions in, 2 ; and hurricane of
1831, 87 ; and hurricane of 1898, 16,
88 - 89, 91 - 92, 94, 217, 228 ; and
Imperial Agricultural Department of
the West Indies, 221 ; infant mortality
in, 36, 163, 167, 237 ; and inter-island
traffic, 114 - 116 ; land accessibility, in,
134 - 135 ; lowlands of, 136 ; and
malnutrition, 190 ; map of, 31 ;
migration from, 21, 37, 78, 85, 121,
122, 135, 162 - 163 ; modernization of
sugar cane industry in, 7, 36 ;
mortality statistics, 190, 237 ;
photographs of, 145, 150 ; planters'
complacency concerning hurricane
dangers, 16 ; population of, 30, 33, 35,
37, 57, 83, 144, 149, 157 - 161, 163,
237 ; and precipitation, 81, 102 ; racial
issues of, 37, 39, 54, 161 ; regional
diversity of, 30 ; riots of, 59, 64, 65 ;
roads of, 34, 144 ; St Lucia's sugar
production compared to, 39 ; and sea
spray, 134 ; smallholder proprietorship
in, 136 - 137 ; and Soufrière eruption,
68, 203, 204, 248 n. 5 ; sugar cane
plantations' monopoly of, 1 ; sugar
production of, 35, 36, 143 - 153, 157,
212, 213, 217, 226 - 231 ; surface water
of, 102 - 103, 109 ; taxation policies of,
55, 56 ; temperature of, 79 ; and
United States trade, 58, 228 ; and West
India Royal Commission of 1897,
35 - 37, 39, 78 ; Windward islands
compared to, 1, 2 ; yellow fever in, 77,
167, 168
Barbados Sugar Industry Agricultural
Bank, 230
Barbour, David, 29, 212
Barrouallie, St Vincent, 7, 93, 124, 142
Basseterre, St Kitts, 63
Beach, Michael Hicks, 215
Beausejour estate, 224

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Publication Information: Book Title: Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the Late 1800s. Contributors: Bonham C. Richardson - author. Publisher: The Press University of The West Indies. Place of Publication: Barbados. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 277.
    
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