B.W. Higman is William Keith Hancock Professor of History, Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His award-winning publications include Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History; Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, which won the Elsa Goveia Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians; and Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912, which also won an Elsa Goveia Prize and an award from the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.
"This is the work of master craftsmen who weave meticulously the methodologies of historian and geographer to produce, out of a confusing galaxy of Jamaican place names, a coherent and thoughtful exposition on the complexities of place names in creole Jamaica." - Patrick E. Bryan, Douglas Hall Professor of History, University of the West Indies, Jamaica "There is nothing like this for the Caribbean and very few analyses of this depth and sensitivity for any other former colonial society. It is a thought-provoking study that should prompt readers across the West Indies to think about what particular place names mean and what sort of societies generated them. The book will change the way that people view place names across the region. It should also encourage comparisons with Jamaica's experiences well beyond the Caribbean too... It will be widely read and cited." - James Robertson, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West Indies, Jamaica"
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