West Indian Business History

by Higman, B. W.; Monteith, Kathleen E. A.

• ISBN13: 9789766402402
• ISBN10: 976640240X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-31
• Publisher: Univ of West Indies Pr

Summary

The study of business history as a distinct discipline is well established in many places but relatively neglected in the anglophone Caribbean. West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship locates the regional history of business within the scope of Caribbean/Atlantic world economic history, placing it within the broader context of business history. As well as providing the foundation text for courses in West Indian business history, this volume is valuable to students of other areas of Caribbean history, wherever they may be enrolled, and also to Caribbean business studies students.

Author Biography

B. W. Higman is William Keith Hancock Professor of History in the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and Professor Emeritus, the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His award-winning publications include Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy, and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. His most recent book is Jamaican Place Names, with B.J. Hudson. Kathleen E.A. Monteith is Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her publications include Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture, edited with Glen Richards, and Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926-1962, both recipients of Best Publication (Book), University of the West Indies, Mona, Principal's Award (2002 and 2008). Her latest publication is The Caribbean, the Atlantic World and Global Transformation: Lectures in Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations in History, edited with Jenny Jemmott and Aleric Josephs.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
West Indian Business History: Scale and Scope	p. 1
Merchants, Privateers And Planters
ôA Frugal, Prudential and Hopeful Tradeö: Privateering in Jamaica, 1655-1689	p. 11
Planters and Merchants: The Oliver Family of Antigua and London 1716-1784	p. 42
Incalculability as a Feature of Sugar Production during the Eighteenth Century	p. 55
Women in the Trinidad Cocoa Industry, 1870-1945	p. 73
Bankers And Financiers
Patterns of Investment and Sources of Credit in the British West Indian Sugar Industry, 1838-1897	p. 101
Financing Agriculture and Trade: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926-1945	p. 125
Black Economic Empowerment in Barbados, 1937-1970: The Role of the Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries	p. 151
Traders, Transporters And Retailers
Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs	p. 179
The Economic Role of the Chinese in Jamaica: The Grocery Retail Trade	p. 193
The Rise of Black Businesses in Barbados, 1900-1966	p. 214
Suggested further readings	p. 225
Index	p. 231
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