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Title Island historical ecology : socionatural landscapes of the eastern and southern Caribbean / edited by Peter E. Siegel
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2018

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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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 1, 2018)
Subject Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Caribbean Area -- History
Landscape changes -- Caribbean Area -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Human ecology
Landscape changes
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Siegel, Peter E., editor.
LC no. 2017053546
ISBN 9781785337642
1785337645