Martinique Revisited
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Martinique Revisited
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Author : Clarissa Thérèse Kimber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Martinique Revisited written by Clarissa Thérèse Kimber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Nature categories.
Morne Vert Martinique Revisited
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Author : Willie Baber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Morne Vert Martinique Revisited written by Willie Baber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Ethnology categories.
The Unending Frontier
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Author : John F. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-05-15
The Unending Frontier written by John F. Richards and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-15 with Nature categories.
It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach—and their numbers—as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending Frontier offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Martinique
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Author : Janet Crane
language : en
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
Release Date : 1995
Martinique written by Janet Crane and has been published by Oxford, England : Clio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Martinique is one of the Lesser Antilles, the island arc that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is also an Overseas Department of France, despite its distant location from Paris. An independence movement has never really galvanized Martinicans and in a referendum held in 1946 the islanders voted overwhelmingly in favour of departmental status and rejected a more autonomous alternative. This volume is the only available resource of its kind.
Caribbean Globalizations 1492 To The Present Day
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Author : Eva Sansavior
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-02
Caribbean Globalizations 1492 To The Present Day written by Eva Sansavior and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day.
Insatiable Appetite
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Author : Richard P. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-11
Insatiable Appetite written by Richard P. Tucker and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes.
Coping With Crisis The Resilience And Vulnerability Of Pre Industrial Settlements
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Author : Daniel R. Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Coping With Crisis The Resilience And Vulnerability Of Pre Industrial Settlements written by Daniel R. Curtis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with History categories.
Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political hazards from ’outside’ such as warfare or expropriation of property, or hazards of their own-making such as soil erosion or subsistence crises. How then can we explain why some societies were able to overcome or negate these problems, while other societies proved susceptible to failure, as settlements contracted, stagnated, were abandoned, or even disappeared entirely? This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent ’disaster studies’ literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that all
Mosquito Empires
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Author : J. R. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-11
Mosquito Empires written by J. R. McNeill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-11 with History categories.
Contents: Part I.
Natures In Translation
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Author : Alan Bewell
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
Natures In Translation written by Alan Bewell and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.
The New Third World
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Author : Alfonzo Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-26
The New Third World written by Alfonzo Gonzalez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Social Science categories.
This book characterizes the Third World at the close of the twentieth century. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings, measures, patterns, and problems associated with the concept of the Third World.