| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Migrations, colonization processes, and landscape learning / Peter E. Siegel -- Unique challenges in archipelagoes : examples from the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands / Thomas P. Leppard -- Archaeological framework for Caribbean historical ecology / Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L.P. Hoogland -- Methods for addressing landscape history / Deborah M. Pearsall, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Peter E. Siegel, Pat Farrell, Jason H. Curtis, and Neil A. Duncan -- Trinidad / Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- Grenada / John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Pat Farrell, Nicholas P. Dunning, Jason H. Curtis, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel -- Curacao / Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- Barbados / Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- Martinique / Neil A. Duncan, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- Marie-Galante / John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- Antigua / Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel -- Barbuda / John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel -- St. Croix / Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel -- Assessing colonization, landscape learning, and socionatural change in the eastern and southern Caribbean / Peter E. Siegel, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, and Jason H. Curtis -- Insights from the outside : wider perspectives and future directions in island Caribbean historical ecology / John F. Cherry. |
| Summary |
In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Landscape changes -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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Human ecology |
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Landscape changes |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
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Caribbean Area |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Siegel, Peter E., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Island historical ecology. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2018 (DLC) 2017050582 |
| ISBN |
9781785337642 (electronic bk.) |
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1785337645 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785337635 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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