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Mapping Water in Dominica

Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

By Mark W. Hauser

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and people

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733

Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a...