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 ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crawford, Sharika D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Subjects:
1800-1999
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.
Tortues marines > Conservation > Caraïbes (Région)
Frontières maritimes > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Maritime boundaries
Sea turtle fisheries
Caribbean Area
Cayman Islands
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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