Island Historical Ecology : : Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean / / ed. by Peter E. Siegel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Balée, William,; Cherry, John F.,; Curtis, Jason H.,; Duncan, Neil A.,; Dunning, Nicholas P.,; Farrell, Pat,; Hofman, Corinne L.,; Hoogland, Menno L. P.,; Jones, John G.,; Leppard, Thomas P.,; Pearsall, Deborah M.,; Siegel, Peter E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Siegel, Peter E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword: A Prelude to Island Historical Ecology --; Preface --; Part I: Method, Theory, and Applications of Island Historical Ecology --; Chapter 1. Migrations, Colonization Processes, and Landscape Learning --; Chapter 2. Unique Challenges in Archipelagoes: Examples from the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands --; Chapter 3. A Cultural Framework for Caribbean Island Historical Ecology Across the Lesser Antilles --; Chapter 4. Methods for Addressing Island Historical Ecology --; Part II: West Indian Island Historical Ecology --; Chapter 5. Trinidad --; Chapter 6. Grenada --; Chapter 7. Curaçao --; Chapter 8. Barbados --; Chapter 9. Martinique --; Chapter 10. Marie-Galante --; Chapter 11. Antigua --; Chapter 12. Barbuda --; Chapter 13. St. Croix --; Part III: Synthesis and Future Directions in Island Historical Ecology --; Chapter 14. Assessing Colonization, Landscape Learning, and Socionatural Changes in the Caribbean --; Chapter 15. Insights from the Outside: Some Wider Perspectives and Future Directions in Caribbean Island Historical Ecology --; References --; Glossary --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785337642; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785337642?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Peter E. Siegel.

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.