First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
George Baca is a research scholar in anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and Dong-A University in Pusan, South Korea. He is an associate editor of Dialectical Anthropology and the author of Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military Town.
Sidney W. Mintz is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations.