The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
By David Watts.
Description
This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted. Dr Watts shows how the initial European vision of a land of plenty has been replaced by an awareness of the geographic and ecological fragiliaty of the area, and exp...
ISBN(s)
0521386519, 9780521386517
