Island historical ecology : socionatural landscapes of the eastern and southern Caribbean / / edited by Peter E. Siegel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825250903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-78533-764-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 304.209729
• Soggetti: Human ecology - Caribbean Area - History; Nature - Effect of human beings on - Caribbean Area - History; Landscape changes - Caribbean Area - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-411) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.