Author/Contributor(s): | Richardson, Bonham C |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
Date: | 04/12/2004 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Drawing on Caribbean and London archives as well as years of fieldwork, Richardson examines how villagers used, modified, and contemplated fire in part to vent their frustrations with a savage economic depression and social and political inequities imposed from afar. He examines fire in all its forms, from protest torches to sugarcane fires that threatened the islands' economic staple. Richardson illuminates a neglected period in Caribbean history by showing how local uses of fire have been catalysts and even causes of important changes in the region.