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Course Description

This course intends that students understand the living landscape -human and botanical- as a result of historical processes, decisions and accidents. Combining historical methods utilizing primary sources along with biological field methods, the natural and anthropogenic dynamics of West Indian botany will be studied. Through this focus we expect students to gain various biological field research skills including plant (and other organismal) identification using keys as well as modern technology-based determination techniques, herbarium use, and the use of open-access technology for data collection, analysis, and citizen science.

Course Text:

Richard Ligon. A true & exact history of the island of Barbados: illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making.London, 1657.

Resources

Digital Library of the Caribbean The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, established from the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project (est. 2009), is the UK’s foremost public history centre for research on the history of slavery and its aftermath, broadening public knowledge and deepening discussions in Britain and the Caribbean. The Centre has provided a tremendous public service by making all of its data, analysis and expertise freely accessible to millions of people in Britain and even internationally.
Go Barbados General guide to modern Barbados intended for visitors.