The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional Geography (Geography of the World-Economy)
by Bonham C. Richardson
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This major textbook survey, first published in 1992, explains how the Caribbean's present geography is intimately tied to the past. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonisation and recolonisation of the show more Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimised by natural hazards, soil erosion, over population and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the region provides equivalent breadth - ranging from aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic - or harnesses so effectively elements of the past to illuminate the present. show lessTags
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Bonham C. Richardson is Professor of Geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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- Important places
- Caribbean Region
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 972.9 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean
- LCC
- F2175 .R49 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Caribbean area. Caribbean Sea
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