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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
This book was overdue...This attempt to bring an environmental focus to the islands and the sea is an excellent place to start, a most enjoyable reading...This book delivers on its promise to document environmental changes in the Caribbean for the longue durée. Undergraduates will benefit from this knowledge, while graduate students should draw inspiration toward topics that demand further research. The collaboration that these scholars undertook has paid off handsomely.
