Abstract
My first book Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History (2005) explores the role of alcohol in the Caribbean using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates archaeological, documentary, and ethnographic evidence. It is a political-economic study that also embraces theoretical models developed in the field of alcohol studies. It argues that, at the level of the lowest common denominator, drinking patterns in the colonial Caribbean reflect the shared social and spiritual beliefs of Europeans, Africans, Carib Indians, and South Asians. Alcohol helped colonists express ethnic identity, define social boundaries, enhance resistance ideologies, and escape the many anxieties of life in the region. It is a widely cited book in Caribbean studies and the book is now a second edition paperback.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-8130-2867-5 |
| State | Published - 2005 |