Full Description
In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology.
Contents
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Acknowledgments
Foreword: A Prelude to Island Historical Ecology
William Balée
Preface
Peter E. Siegel
PART I: METHOD, THEORY, AND APPLICATIONS OF ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
Chapter 1. Migrations, Colonization Processes, and Landscape Learning
Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 2. Unique Challenges in Archipelagoes:
Examples from the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands
Thomas P. Leppard
Chapter 3. A Cultural Framework for Caribbean Island Historical Ecology
Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L. P. Hoogland
Chapter 4. Methods for Addressing Island Historical Ecology
Deborah M. Pearsall, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Peter E. Siegel, Pat Farrell, Jason H. Curtis, and Neil A. Duncan
PART II: WEST INDIAN ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
Chapter 5. Trinidad
Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 6. Grenada
John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Pat Farrell, Nicholas P. Dunning, Jason H. Curtis, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 7. Curaçao
Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 8. Barbados
Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 9. Martinique
Neil A. Duncan, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 10. Marie-Galante
John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 11. Antigua
John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 12. Barbuda
John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel
Chapter 13. St. Croix
Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel
PART III: SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
Chapter 14. Assessing Colonization, Landscape Learning, and Socionatural Changes in the Caribbean
Peter E. Siegel, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, and Jason H. Curtis
Chapter 15. Insights from the Outside:
Some Wider Perspectives and Future Directions in Caribbean Island Historical Ecology
John F. Cherry
References
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Notes on Contributors
Index
