History Program

Research School of Social Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA


61 2 612 52354

61 2 612 53969



Academic Staff

Professor Barry Higman

BA Syd, PhD (History) University of the West Indies, PhD (Geography) Liverpool, FRHistS, FASSA


Ph: 61 2 6125 2348
Email: (barry.higman@anu.edu.au)


Areas of research

Labour History

History of occupations

Slavery and servitude

Australian economic and social history

Landscape history

History of food and agriculture

Caribbean history

ooOoo

Current projects

1) Landscape studies

The idea of the island

The idea of flatness, with special reference to Australia

Sugar plantation landscapes

History of the Jamaican landscape

Jamaican place names

2) Labour history

Global history of domestic servitude since about 1500

3) Cultural history

History of Jamaican food

ooOoo

 

Books


2009 - (with B.J. Hudson) Jamaican Place Names, University of the West Indies Press

2008 - Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of West Indies Press

2005 - Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and control in a Colonial Economy, University of the West Indies Press

2002   -   Domestic Service in Australia,   Melbourne University Press

1999   -   Writing West Indian Histories, Macmillan

1998   -   Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912, University of the West Indies Press

1988   -   Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Institute of Jamaica Publications

1984   -   Slave Populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834, Johns Hopkins University Press

1976   -   Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834, Cambridge University Press.