L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne

In French West-Indies, the old colonial estates are not called plantations, but “habitations”, because the geographic space as well as the way of life differed here from the vast plantations of Latin America, Southern United States and Greater Antilles. The « Habitation Beauséjour » situated on land...

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Main Author: Laurent-Christian Ursulet
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Published: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 2012-04-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/2432
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description In French West-Indies, the old colonial estates are not called plantations, but “habitations”, because the geographic space as well as the way of life differed here from the vast plantations of Latin America, Southern United States and Greater Antilles. The « Habitation Beauséjour » situated on land that is good for growing export crops, in northern Martinique, is an instructive exemple of colonial estate preserving a traditional structure with plantations, main buildings, production buildings, hydraulic land-scaping, and buildings for housing and use of employees. The « Habitation Beauséjour » is more than many others a Creole estate with a persistent structure that has remained unchanged over its history and through the change due to the end of the exploitive relations generated by colonial societies.
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L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
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title L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
title_full L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
title_fullStr L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
title_full_unstemmed L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
title_short L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne
title_sort l habitation beausejour une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et perenne
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