A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the End of the Nineteenth Century, Issue 186Study based on the printed histories available in the libraries of the University College of the West Indies and of the Institute of Jamaica. |
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... labour on the plantations might , in some cases , obscure the urgency of that need . 721 This Merivale quite failed to grasp because his theory of West Indian history emphasized fertility of land as the first most important principle ...
... labour on the plantations might , in some cases , obscure the urgency of that need . 721 This Merivale quite failed to grasp because his theory of West Indian history emphasized fertility of land as the first most important principle ...
Page 148
... labour question in the West Indies to be fundamentally a land question , complicated by lack of capital to pay high wages , by the failure to economise existing supplies of labour even where these were available , and by an inability or ...
... labour question in the West Indies to be fundamentally a land question , complicated by lack of capital to pay high wages , by the failure to economise existing supplies of labour even where these were available , and by an inability or ...
Page 150
... labour supply alone appeared to warrant . 742 He makes the important point , for instance , that other employers , such as the builders of the new railroad , did not seem to meet with as much difficulty in procuring labour as the ...
... labour supply alone appeared to warrant . 742 He makes the important point , for instance , that other employers , such as the builders of the new railroad , did not seem to meet with as much difficulty in procuring labour as the ...
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