Emeritus Professor Barry Higman
Areas of expertise
- Historical Studies 2103
- Human Geography 1604
Research interests
Historical geography and historical demography, with particular reference to the Caribbean and the history of slavery.
Biography
I was previously Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and am now Professor Emeritus of that university. In my research and writing I seek to combine historical methodologies with techniques from other disciplines notably geography, and archaeology. I use quantitative methods whenever appropriate.
Researcher's projects
The world history of slavery over the last five thousand years; the global history of domestic servants in the modern world; the history of the Jamaican landscape; and the history of islands and insularity.
Publications
- Higman, B 2022, 'INDIGENOUS HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN THE CARIBBEAN', in Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 500-523.
- Higman, B 2021, A Concise History of the Caribbean, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Higman, B 2020, 'Locating the Caribbean: The Role of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Search for Longitude', Journal Of Caribbean History, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 296-317.
- Higman, B 2018, 'Archaeologies of slavery and freedom in the Caribbean: exploring the spaces in between', Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 221-222pp.
- Higman, B 2018, 'Between Blood and Gold: The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas', Journal of Economic History, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 944-946pp.
- Higman, B 2017, Flatness, Reaktion Books Ltd, London.
- Higman, B 2017, 'Demographic Trends', in David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, Seymour Drescher and David Richarson (ed.), The Cambridge World of History of Slavery, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 20-48.
- Higman, B, ed., 2016, Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Oxford University Press, New York, United States.
- Higman, B 2016, 'Williams, Francis: Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography', in Franklin W Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (ed.), Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Oxford University Press, New York, United States, pp. 369-370pp.
- Higman, B 2015, 'An Historical Perspective: Colonial Continuities in the Global Geography of Domestic Service', in Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie (ed.), Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, pp. 19-37.
- Higman, B 2014, 'Survival and Silence in the Material Record of Slavery and Abolition AFTERWORD', Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 527-535.
- Higman, B 2014, 'Lady Nugent's Social History', Journal Of Caribbean History, vol. 48, no. 1 and 2, pp. 65-85.
- Higman, B 2012, 'Jamaica Coat of Arms: Rice and Peas', in Richard Wilk and Livia Barbosa (ed.), Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places, Berg Publishers, London, pp. 61-79pp..
- Higman, B 2012, 'Eight Iterations of Lady Nugent's Jamaica Journal', Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, vol. xxxiv, no. 2, pp. 170-179.
- Higman, B 2012, How food made history, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
- Higman, B 2011, Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 1729-1788, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston Jamaica.
- Higman, B 2011, A Concise History of the Caribbean, Cambridge University Press, United States of America.
- Higman, B 2011, 'Demography and Family Structures', in David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman (ed.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 479-511pp..
- Higman, B 2011, Historia zynosci: jak zywnosz zmieniala swiat, Wydawnictwo Aletheia, Warsaw.
- Higman, B & Monteith, K 2010, 'West Indian Business History: Scale and Scope', in B.W. Higman and Kathleen E.A. Monteith (ed.), West Indian Business History: Enterprise and entrepreneurship, University of the West Indies Press, United States of America, pp. 1-7.
- Higman, B & Hudson, B 2009, Jamaican Place Names, University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica.
- Higman, B 2008, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston Jamaica.
- Higman, B 2007, 'Jamaican Versions of Callaloo', Callaloo, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 351-368.
- Higman, B 2006, 'Lady Nugent's Second Breakfast', Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 116-27.
- Higman, B 2005, Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and control in a colonial Economy, University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica.
- Higman, B 2005, 'Jamaica', in John J. McCusker (ed.), History of World trade since 1450, Thomson Gale, Detroit, pp. 423-425.
- Higman, B 2005, 'Introduction [to The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820]', in Kamau Brathwaite (ed.), The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820, Ian Randle Publishers, kingston Jamaica, pp. xi-xxiii.
- Higman, B 2004, 'History, Heritage and Memory in Modern Jamaica', Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, vol. XXVI, no. 1, pp. 239-245.
- Hamilton, P & Higman, B 2003, 'Servants of empire: the British training of domestics for Australia, 1926-31', Social History, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 67-82.
- Higman, B 2003, 'Testing the Boundaries of White Australia: Domestic Servants and Immigration Policy, 1901-45', Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-21.
- Higman, B 2003, 'Plantagensklaverei in Nord-Amerika und der Karibik', Zeitschrift fur Weltgeschichte, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 9-23.
- Higman, B 2003, 'Recycling the Wheel: The Jamaican Handcart as Alternative Urban Transport', AXIS, Journal of the Caribbean School of Architecture, vol. 6, pp. 90-103.
- Higman, B 2003, 'The Letterbooks of Isaac Jackson, Jamaican Planting Attorney, 1839-1843', Journal Of Caribbean History, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 317-329.
- Higman, B 2002, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Carlton South Vic..
- Higman, B 2002, 'To Begin the World Again: Responses to Emancipation at Friendship and Greenwich Estate, Jamaica', in Kathleen E.A.Monteith and Glen Richards (ed.), JAMAICA in SLAVERY and FREEDOM: History, Heritage and Culture, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston 7, Jamaica, pp. 291-306.
- Higman, B 2002, 'The making of the sugar revolution', in Alvin O. Thompson (ed.), In the shadow of the plantation, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica, pp. 40-71.
- Higman, B 2001, 'Ideas and illustrations in the Historical Thought of Douglas Hall', Journal Of Caribbean History, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 66-79.
- Higman, B 2000, 'The sugar revolution', Economic History Review, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 213-236.