B.W. Higman is William Keith Hancock Professor of History in the History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; and Professor Emeritus, University of the West Indies. His award winning publications include Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807B1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, and Plantation Jamaica, 1750B1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. His most recent book is Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture.B.J. Hudson is Adjunct Professor in the School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. From 1971 to 1985, he was a member of the Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. In addition to his academic work at the University of the West Indies, he has served as an urban and regional planner for the governments of Jamaica and Grenada. His major books include Cities on the Shore: The Urban Littoral Frontier; The Waterfalls of Jamaica: Sublime and Beautiful Objects; and Queensland: Geographical Perspectives.
