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Monteith does not engage directly larger debates about the West Indian economy in the era of abolition, focusing instead on the specific market conditions (noted above) that promoted, and then undermined, coffee production in Jamaica. (Paper US$ 60.00) I Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1848 i details the rise and fall of coffee as a major export crop in nineteenth-century Jamaica. Then, for a brief period following the revolution by enslaved people in Saint-Domingue, coffee plantations and production expanded dramatically so that by 1800, Jamaica had emerged as the world's leading coffee producer. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Dictionary of Tropical American Crops and Their Diseases,' by Frederick L. Wellman.

Reviews the book "Tropical Crops: Monocotyledons 1 and 2," by J. W. Purseglove.

The article reviews the book "Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones," edited by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt.

Reviews the book "Below-Ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Concepts and Models With Multiple Plant Components," edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch and C.K. Ong.

Reviews the book 'Tropical Crops. Dicotyledons I and II,' by J.W. Purseglove.

Reviews the book 'Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World,' by Richard P. Tucker.

Reviews the book "Ecophysiology of Tropical Crops," by P. De T. Alvim and T.T. Kozlowski.

The article reviews the book "Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Plantation Crops (8-9 December 1972, Trivandrum, Kerala, India)," edited by N. M. Nayer.