By Bonham C. Richardson
The Caribbean was once Europe's first colony, its landscapes reworked to provide tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal population changed with African slaves. As ecu energy has waned within the Caribbean, it's been changed through the geopolitical domination of the us. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean up to now part millennium, portraying a area victimized by means of ordinary dangers, soil erosion, overpopulation and gunboat international relations. most significantly, he explains the ways that Caribbean peoples have reacted and tailored to their exterior affects. No different unmarried survey of the zone presents similar breadth--ranging from aboriginal ecologies to modern narcotic traffic--or harnesses so successfully parts of the prior to light up the current.
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And, during the next decade, the company's American supervisors and Jamaican laborers cleared thousands of acres of coastal scrub and rainforest mainly in Honduras and Costa Rica. By 1914 the sense of pride and technical omnipotence surrounding the American environmental conquest of coastal Central America seemed boundless: "An empire of agriculture was carved from the jealous and resentful jungles. Hundreds of miles of railroads were constructed into wilderness . . from out of the waters of the Caribbean steamed scores of ships to the marts of the Old and New World bearing the commerce which Yankee enterprise had created in a crusade to attain the peaceful Conquest of the Tropics" (Adams 1914: 122).
Hundreds of miles of railroads were constructed into wilderness . . from out of the waters of the Caribbean steamed scores of ships to the marts of the Old and New World bearing the commerce which Yankee enterprise had created in a crusade to attain the peaceful Conquest of the Tropics" (Adams 1914: 122). The geographical legacy Sugar cane remains the principal crop of the Greater Antilles and also the Caribbean as a whole in the late twentieth century. Control A colonized environment 35 over the cultivation of much of the region's cane has come under local government auspices or at least local government supervision.
Perhaps the most spectacular case of environmental devastation during these devastating decades in Caribbean environmental history was the French burning of the forest and scrub cover of the entire island of St. Croix "To remedy the inconvenience and make the island more healthy" (Dirks 1987: 16). Land-use transformation on the French islands of the eastern Caribbean followed a course parallel to that of the English possessions. The early French policy of establishing a transplanted European peasantry on Guadeloupe and Martinique was soon overridden.