UID:
almafu_9961414625202883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-83765-089-6
Content:
Traces the impact of world events on St Helena's topography, ecology and human population, from the early 1500s to the present day.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Feb 2024).
,
Front cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Photo credits -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Genesis -- The island and its setting -- The loss of Eden -- 2. The breach: Europe and St Helena collide -- The Portuguese, Dutch, and the British -- 3. Population and environment: early impacts -- Animal and botanical resources -- 4. Population and environment: asserting control -- Populating the island -- Slaves and near-slaves -- Feeding the population -- Controlling the natural economy -- 5. 'The citadel of the South Atlantic' -- Securing the island -- Defences and defenders -- Signals and telegraph -- 6. Scientists in transit: St Helena as a site for scientific investigation -- A constellation of astronomers -- St Helena and the magnetic crusade -- Wind, weather and tide at St Helena -- A succession of naturalists -- 7. Napoleon on St Helena -- 8. Later detainees, 1800s and 1900s -- Policing the slave trade -- Zulu chieftains in the mid-Atlantic -- Boer War prisoners -- Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busa'ldi -- An unfulfilled Irish interlude -- The Bahraini Three -- Asylum revisited -- 9. A place in the modern world -- The coming of the submarine telegraph -- Radio and television -- Maritime oblivion again -- Birth of an airport -- Biosecurity and regeneration in the new international age -- And next: Utopia in the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Governors of St Helena -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: MacGregor, Arthur St Helena Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,c2024
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Biografie
DOI:
10.1515/9781837650897
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Bookmarklink
