Technology, slavery and the Falmouth Water Company of Jamaica, 1799-1805
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5797859 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Aaron Graham (0000-0003-3846-2326, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 315-332 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-08-22 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Editora | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2017.1366105 |
| OpenAlex | W2748004837 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
Slave societies such as Jamaica were among the earliest regions to adopt new technologies, suggesting that slavery was not synonymous with economic backwardness. This article uses the efforts of the Falmouth Water Company to adopt the new hydraulic ram between 1799 and 1805 to show that this process was also not restricted to the plantation sector and that the island possessed an unexpected capacity for technological adaption. This was based on local skills in mechanical and civil engineering derived from the plantation sector, and a wider political and financial background that supported innovation when the right conditions were in place
Backwardness · Business · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Hydraulic Engineering · Political science · Politics · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law
| Citações por ano | 0,43 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Altamente citado | Não |