The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean : Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making /

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"Crawford begins in the sixteenth century, laying out the stakes for the British and Spanish empires that first viewed the Caribbean as "an Atlantic commons"-an open space where all could compete to control diverse Caribbean peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region's raw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crawford, Sharika D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sea turtles > Conservation > Caribbean Area.
Maritime boundaries > Caribbean Area > History.
Sea turtle fisheries > Political aspects > Caribbean Area.
Sea turtle fisheries > Cayman Islands > History > 20th century.
Sea turtle fisheries > Cayman Islands > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sages of the sea : turtles in the greater Caribbean
  • Out to sea : labor and the Caymanian turtle fishery, 1880s-1950s
  • A contact zone : mobility, commerce, and kinship in the western Caribbean, 1850s-1940s
  • Limits at sea : state claims, territorial consolidation, and boundary disputes, 1880s-1950s
  • Save the turtles : the rise of sea turtle conservationism, 1940s-1970s.

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