Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 178138794X |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1846318904 |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781846319983 |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Survey of the Properties and Uses of Tropical American Woods
Title | Survey of the Properties and Uses of Tropical American Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick F. Wangaard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Survey of American Foreign Relations: 1928
Title | Survey of American Foreign Relations: 1928 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Prentice Howland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Survey of American Foreign Relations 1928-1931
Title | Survey of American Foreign Relations 1928-1931 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Prentice Howland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
American Tropics
Title | American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Raby |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1469635615 |
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.