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B. W. Higman is the William Keith Hancock Professor of History at Australian National University and Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies. He is the author of ten books on Caribbean history, archaeology, and geography, including Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 mostrar mais (1976, Cambridge; awarded the Bancroft Prize), Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy (2005), and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2008). mostrar menos

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Nome de batismo
Higman, Barry William
Data de nascimento
1943-09-30
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Australia
Local de nascimento
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Ocupação
historian
Organizações
Australian National University
Pequena biografia
Barry William Higman, BA (Sydney), PhD (Hist) (University of the West Indies), PhD (Geog) (Liverpool)

Currently (2012) at the Australian National University as Professor specialising in the social and economic history of Australia and the Americas, particularly the Caribbean. Current research projects include:

domestic service in Australia
history of occupations in Australia
tropical landscape representation.

Key publications

B. W. Higman (2002) Domestic Service in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
B. W. Higman (2000) Writing West Indian Histories. London: Macmillan.
(1999) Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean. Vol VI of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean. London/Paris: Macmillan/Unesco Publishing.
B. W. Higman (1999) Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
B. W. Higman (1988) Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica.
B. W. Higman (1984) Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
B. W. Higman (1976) Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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