Among the most distinctive maps of the seventeenth-century Caribbean is an unsigned 1670s manuscript map of English Montserrat. Unusual for its presentation of a series of seven perspectival views of ...

“It is the fairest land that eyes have beheld,” wrote Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American tourists are ...

Year and a half ago a Royal Commission headed by Anthropologist Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, left England for the West Indies to find out what was wrong with that restless segment of Empire. In ...

This field book documents Hubbard's trip to Montserrat from 17 February to 25 April 1894 to examine and exterminate insect pests affecting lime trees. Included in the notes is a brief newspaper ...

British West Indian society and economy after emancipation -- Push factors and migration trends in India and China -- Formal organization of the British West Indian indenture system -- Life and labor ...