The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography
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 As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States.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 colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation 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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The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography
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 As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States.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 colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation 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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The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography

by Bonham C. Richardson
The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography

by Bonham C. Richardson

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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 As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States.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 colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521359771
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/16/1992
Series: Geography of the World-Economy
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. The creation of the Caribbean; 2. A colonised environment; 3. Plantations and their peoples to 1900; 4. The American century; 5. Economic dependency; 6. Human migrations; 7. Resistance and political independence; 8. Towards a geography of Caribbean nationhood; Bibliography.
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