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Beschreibung
This book is a major new textbook survey that explains how the region's present geography is intimately tied to the past. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazard, soil erosion, introduced overpopulation, and gunboat diplomacy.
This book is a major new textbook survey that explains how the region's present geography is intimately tied to the past. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazard, soil erosion, introduced overpopulation, and gunboat diplomacy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521359771
ISBN-10: 0521359775
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Richardson, Bonham C.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Bonham C. Richardson
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1992
Gewicht: 0,415 kg
Artikel-ID: 101149176