Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 235 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511560057
Series Statement:
Geography of the world-economy
Content:
This major textbook survey, first published in 1992, explains how the Caribbean's present geography is intimately tied to the past. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonisation and recolonisation of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimised by natural hazards, soil erosion, over population and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the region provides equivalent breadth - ranging from aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic - or harnesses so effectively elements of the past to illuminate the present
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1. The creation of the Caribbean 1 -- 2. A colonized environment 13 -- 3. Plantations and their peoples to 1900 38 -- 4. The American century 78 -- 5. Economic dependency 106 -- 6. Human migrations 132 -- 7. Resistance and political independence 158 -- 8. Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood 184.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521351867
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521359771
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521351867
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511560057
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