Sea and Land - An Environmental History of the Caribbean

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

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Additional text

Sea and Land excels in balancing the broad, enduring themes of Caribbean environmental history alongside an analysis of particular events and their aftermaths. In the same convincing manner, it identifies the elements that make the Caribbean a unified space while also showing variations in diverse island environments and societie...It is a thorough, scholarly work that also speaks to a broader audience.

Product details

• Authors: John R. Mcneill, McNeill John R., Philip D. Morgan, Philip D. (Harry C. Black Professor of His Morgan, Philip J. Morgan, Philip J. (Harry C. Black Professor of His Morgan, Philip J./ Mcneill Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, Mulcahy Matthew, Stuart B. Schwartz, Schwartz Stuart B.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2022
• EAN: 9780197555453
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755545-3
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Caribbean islands, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery