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Islands, forests and gardens in the Caribbean, conservation and conflict in environmental history, edited by Robert S. Anderson, Richard Grove, and Karis Hiebert ; with a foreword by Sir James F. Mitchell

Label
Islands, forests and gardens in the Caribbean, conservation and conflict in environmental history, edited by Robert S. Anderson, Richard Grove, and Karis Hiebert ; with a foreword by Sir James F. Mitchell
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
mapsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Islands, forests and gardens in the Caribbean
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
56640736
Responsibility statement
edited by Robert S. Anderson, Richard Grove, and Karis Hiebert ; with a foreword by Sir James F. Mitchell
Series statement
Warwick University Caribbean studies
Sub title
conservation and conflict in environmental history
Table Of Contents
Gardens and forests on Caribbean islands : two hundred years of environmental institutions / Robert S. Anderson -- "To have a garden is to be a man" : Caribs and the transformation of the landscape / Lennox Honychurch -- Environmental institutions, legislation, and environmental change in the early eastern Caribbean island settlements / David Watts -- Botanical gardens : connecting links in plant transfer between the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions / Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane -- Gardens and forests in colonial Saint Domingue / James E. McClellan III -- Le Jardin Colonial des Plantes of Martinique / Clarissa Kimber -- The St. Vincent Botanic Garden : the early years / Richard A. Howard -- The British Empire and the origins of forest conservation in the eastern Caribbean, 1700-1800 / Richard Grove -- Mountain, bush, and garden : the historical context of environmental conflict on St. Vincent / Adrian Fraser -- Recent studies of the Kings Hill Forest Reserve on St. Vincent / Michael Kidston ... [et al.] -- "Bush, " "garden, " and "mountain" on the leeward coast of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1719-1995 / Hymie Rubenstein
Target audience
specialized
Classification
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