Philip D. Morgan (Harry C. Bla Harry C. Black Professor of History, John R. McNeill (University Professor, University Professor, George, Matthew Mulcahy (Professor of History, Professor of History, Loyola

Sea and Land

An Environmental History of the Caribbean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 234mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780197555453
• ISBN-10: 0197555454
• Artikelnr.: 64058681

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgments
* Introduction- Philip D. Morgan
* Chapter 1: The Caribbean Environment to ca. 1850- Philip D. Morgan
* Chapter 2: Disease Environments of the Caribbean, 5000 BCE to 1850
CE- J. R. McNeill
* Chapter 3: Natural Disasters in the Early Modern Caribbean- Stuart B.
Schwartz and Matthew Mulcahy
* Conclusion: Caribbean Environmental History since 1850- Philip D.
Morgan, J.R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index