Duncan Du Bois provides a detailed and fascinating history of a hitherto much-neglected part of what was the colony of Natal. Based primarily on original archiv

Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the

This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands

How did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by

Includes Report of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, 1963-