28. JACK DEVINE ♂
Information acquired: 2025
JACK DEVINE is an academic who published a paper in 2016 entitled Lan,,scapes of Development: The Haitian Peasantry and the Historical Evolution of Haiti's Landscape. JACK DEVINE published this work as part of a team: Devine, Jack. Here is a description of this work: In ,,ormer colonies like Haiti, studying landscape shift can provide unique insight into the impact of public policies and social institutions. Geographers have focused on human culture as the agent in alterations of the physical landscape since the 1920s. 3 In Haiti, studying landscape shift provides a particularly important perspective on Haitian history because of the central role that shifts in human-environmental relationships have played in some of the country‟s most important transitions. Plantation agriculture completely changed the ecological and the racial landscapes of the island, transforming a forest sparsely inhabited by Amerindians into a black sugar production hub. Black slaves fought for their independence in the 1790s because of their desire to own land and be beholden to no master. The US spends $38 million annuall.