Island historical ecology : socionatural landscapes of the eastern and southern Caribbean / edited by Peter E. Siegel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siegel, Peter E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Caribbean Area--History.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Caribbean Area--History.

Nature.

Landscape changes--Caribbean Area--History.

Landscape changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-411) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785337642

1785337645

OCLC:

1350572114