This book is a superb piece of scholarship and should serve as a major addition to not only the social history of Barbados but more generally to our understanding of the impact of emigration....
Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands south to Trinidad. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, leading to the 1905 withdrawal of British military forces from the region, Richardson ...
Bearing in mind the recent renewed interest in the economic and environmental problems of small islands everywhere, (this) is a highly appropriate time to bring back to world attention the issues of that time, which served in large measure to define the patterns of development in Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent in the early decades of the twentieth century", -- David Watts, University of Hull, EnglandIn this historical geography ...
This book is a major new textbook survey that explains how the region's present geography is intimately tied to the past. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazard, soil erosion, introduced overpopulation, and gunboat diplomacy.
