West Indian Business History

The study of business history as a distinct discipline is well established in many places but relatively neglected in the anglophone Caribbean. West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship locates the regional history of business within the scope of Caribbean/Atlantic world economic history, placing it within the broader context of business history. As well as providing the foundation text for courses in West Indian business history, this volume is valuable to students of other areas of Caribbean history, wherever they may be enrolled, and also to Caribbean business studies students.

B. W. Higman is William Keith Hancock Professor of History in the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and Professor Emeritus, the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His award-winning publications include Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy, and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. His most recent book is Jamaican Place Names, with B.J. Hudson. Kathleen E.A. Monteith is Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her publications include Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture, edited with Glen Richards, and Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926-1962, both recipients of Best Publication (Book), University of the West Indies, Mona, Principal's Award (2002 and 2008). Her latest publication is The Caribbean, the Atlantic World and Global Transformation: Lectures in Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations in History, edited with Jenny Jemmott and Aleric Josephs.