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Taxonomy, phylogeny, and diversity of the extinct Lesser Antillean rice rats (Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with description of a new genus and species
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SAMUEL T. TURVEY and others
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 160, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 748–772, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00628.x
Published: 24 November 2010
... desmarestii, Megalomys luciae, and Oligoryzomys victus), and describe a new genus and species, Pennatomys nivalis gen. et sp. nov. , from archaeological sites on St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and Nevis, which formed a single larger island during Quaternary low sea-level stands...
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Emergence, 1603–1650
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Thomas M. Truxes
Published: 30 November 2021
... America, but with little results. In the English Caribbees, the first settlers on Barbados, St. Christopher, Nevis, and Montserrat likewise struggled to establish a foothold. And the export economy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was undermined by reverse migration and the chaos of the English Civil War...
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The Caribbean and West Indies
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Natalie A. Zacek
Published: 21 September 2017
...This chapter examines the development of the Church of England in the West Indian colonies, notably Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts, in the era of ‘sugar and slavery’ (the mid-seventeenth through to late eighteenth centuries). In many instances...
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Published: 15 November 2016
...A map of Nevis drawn in 1871, indicated three postemancipation African Villages. Landscape survey was conducted to locate the site of Morgan’s Village. Artifacts at the presumed site suggested a strong pre-emancipation component. The Morgan’s site represents an important period on Nevis history...
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The Present Past: The Design Legacy of Laborers’ Housing in the Landscape of Vernacular Architecture on Nevis
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Marco Meniketti
Published: 05 November 2019
...The dwellings of enslaved laborers toiling on the sugar estates in the British colony of Nevis were fragile in character and perishable in construction. Unlike more robust plantation housing found on other islands, of wattle-and-daub or masonry, the homes on Nevis for enslaved workers consisted...
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Introduction
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Paolo Panico
Published: 23 March 2017
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Published: 01 March 2012
... abortive engagement to the Bristol merchant, Charles Pinney, who came from a family of slave-owners and held mortgages on slave estates on Nevis. The episode demonstrates Wilberforce’s naivety, but also the frequently unavoidable connections between emancipationists and the owners of slave estates...
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The Obesity Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: A Case Study from the Caribbean
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Kristen Lowitt and others
Published: 11 October 2018
... and Hawkes et al. 18 . Table 10.2 Comparison of Control and Intervention Menus in St. Kitts-Nevis Schools Day Control Intervention (Menu Change) 1 Spaghetti in browning with corned beef Oven baked chicken in light gravy Seasoned baked sweet potato Sautéed...
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From ‘vast extended prospect’ to ‘the spectacle of nature’ Wordsworth, Keats, and the Aesthetics of Elevated Viewing
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Simon Bainbridge
Published: 16 April 2020
... in 1791 and Keats’s ‘fag & tug’ up Ben Nevis in 1818 to show how the writers participated in the period’s developing mountaineering culture. It investigates the visual dimension of the two poets’ ascents, locating their climbs within the optically-motivated culture of Romantic-period climbing...
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