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Download or read book Antigua and Barbuda written by Riva Berleant-Schiller and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antigua and Barbuda together make up a single independent state. The union is an uneasy one, for their relationship has always been ambiguous and their differences in history and economy greater than their similarities. Barbuda is a flat, dry limestone island. Its inhabitants raised food and livestock for their own use and after the end of slavery resisted attempts to introduce commercial agriculture and stock-rearing. Antigua, by contrast, was dominated by a sugar plantation economy and its goals are now shaped by high-impact tourist development. This is the only comprehensive reference available for locating information about Antigua and Barbuda.