This book was overdue...This attempt to bring an environmental focus to the islands and the sea is an excellent place to start, a most enjoyable reading...This book delivers on its promise to document environmental changes in the Caribbean for the longue dur'ee. Undergraduates will benefit from this knowledge, while graduate students should draw inspiration toward topics that demand further research. The collaboration that these scholars undertook has paid off handsomely.
Philip D. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry, among other books.
J.R. McNeill is University Professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous works, including Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
Matthew Mulcahy is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland, whose work includes Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and the author of many books, including Sea of Storms. A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean.