The last turtlemen of the Caribbean : waterscapes of labor, conservation, and boundary making / Sharika D. Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Sharika D., author.

Series:

Flows, migrations, and exchanges.

North Carolina scholarship online.

Flows, migrations, and exchanges

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea turtle fisheries--Cayman Islands--History--19th century.

Sea turtle fisheries.

Sea turtle fisheries--Cayman Islands--History--20th century.

Sea turtle fisheries--Political aspects--Caribbean Area.

Maritime boundaries--Caribbean Area--History.

Maritime boundaries.

Sea turtles--Conservation--Caribbean Area.

Sea turtles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea.

Contents:

Sages of the sea : turtles in the greater Caribbean

Out to sea : labor and the Caymanian turtle fishery, 1880s-1950s

A contact zone : mobility, commerce, and kinship in the western Caribbean, 1850s-1940s

Limits at sea : state claims, territorial consolidation, and boundary disputes, 1880s-1950s

Save the turtles : the rise of sea turtle conservationism, 1940s-1970s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

"This book was published with the assistance of the Wells Fargo Fund for Excellence of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

979-88-908518-2-6

979-88-908518-3-3

1-4696-6022-9

1-4696-6021-0

OCLC:

1198892679