Title American tropics : the Caribbean roots of biodiversity science / Megan Raby.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Flows, migrations, and exchanges
	Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"By examining U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War and the construction of the Panama Canal through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Raby demonstrates how research in tropical biology developed in tandem with the southward expansion of U.S. empire and argues that both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern biodiversity discourse were developed in significant part through U.S. biologists' encounters with the Caribbean. In doing so, Raby brings to the forefront a ... neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire. While historians of science and environment have shown interest in the application of U.S. ecological and environmental ideas in the tropical world, this study demonstrates how that knowledge also flowed in the other direction"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction: From Tropicality to Biodiversity -- Chapter One: An American Tropical Laboratory -- Chapter Two: Making Biology Tropical -- Chapter Three: Jungle Island -- Chapter Four: The Question of Diversity -- Chapter Five: A Global Resource -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Ecology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Biodiversity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Biodiversity.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Biology -- Fieldwork -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century.
	Biology -- Fieldwork.
	Caribbean Area.
	Biology -- Fieldwork -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area.
	Biology -- Fieldwork -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1897-1901.
	International relations.
Chronological Term	1897-1901
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1897-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Raby, Megan. American tropics. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469635590 (DLC) 2017009456 (OCoLC)974213300
ISBN	9781469635613 (electronic book)
	1469635615 (electronic book)
	9781469635590
	1469635593
	9781469635606
	1469635607

Title American tropics : the Caribbean roots of biodiversity science / Megan Raby.

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