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Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History
ISBN: 9780807855232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands south to Trinidad. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, leading to the 1905 withdrawal of British military forces from the region, Richardson shows how fire-lit social upheavals served as forerunners of political independence movements.
Drawing on Caribbean and London archives as... Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer ...
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Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the Late 1800s
ISBN: 9789766400385 / Angielski / Book / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography
ISBN: 9780521359771 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to...
The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with Af...
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224,96 zł |
The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992: A Regional Geography
ISBN: 9780521351867 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to...
The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with Af...
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503,37 zł |