American Tropics

Author : Megan Raby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469635613

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American Tropics by Megan Raby Pdf

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.

Author : Rock Holliwood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481702836

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American Tropics by Rock Holliwood Pdf

American Tropics is a story of one mans journey from LA toMiamitoKey Westto LA and then to theHawaiian Islandsto visit the most tropical parts ofAmerica. The protagonist, who is a member of Generation X, tells the story about his adventures and the characters that he meets along the way. The book is a journey; reading it you will go on a journey in your imagination to the most southern extremes of theUnited States: to the continental south point close to the Hemingway House inKey West,Florida, and to the south point of theHawaiian Islands. It will take you to celebrate the exuberance and joy of being a member of Generation X while traveling through the most tropical parts of the great experiment in freedom and wealth: America. It is a story of beauty, joy and exhilaration, where the author takes the advice of Thomas Jefferson and travels to the most tropical parts of the states to experience Life,Libertyand the Pursuit of Happiness. American Tropics is the story of one mans generational dream and a call to every member of the generation to take up arms against a sea of dreariness, to have more fun, pursuing happiness in the American Tropics. It is a story for a generation that dislikes its name: Generation X, and a call to this 13th generation of theUnited States to wake up to the immense beauty of modern life and to pick up from where the Summer of Love generation left off. The book is a generational dream from a Generation X author.

Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli,Peter Hulme,Owen Robinson,Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387948

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Surveying the American Tropics by Maria Cristina Fumagalli,Peter Hulme,Owen Robinson,Lesley Wylie Pdf

A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.

Author : Air University (U.S.). Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Plants, Edible
ISBN : SRLF:A0005088356

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Living Off the American Tropics by Air University (U.S.). Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center Pdf

Author : James A. Kushlan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065489

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Seeking the American Tropics by James A. Kushlan Pdf

For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.

Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781837645008

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Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics by Lesley Wylie Pdf

Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.

Author : Michael Boyden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192868305

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Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by Michael Boyden Pdf

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.

Author : Peter W. Stahl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521444861

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Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics by Peter W. Stahl Pdf

This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics.

Author : IICA,PROCITROPICOS – Costa Rica
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cooperative Program on Technology Generation and Transfer for the South American Tropics by IICA,PROCITROPICOS – Costa Rica Pdf

Author : Philip P. Boucher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801887260

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France and the American Tropics to 1700 by Philip P. Boucher Pdf

Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the 18th century. This text is a comprehensive account of colonization and French society in the Caribbean.

Author : Francis E. Putz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Forest management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009195582

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Natural Forest Management in the American Tropics by Francis E. Putz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cooperative Program on Research and Technology Transfer for the South American Tropics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip P. Boucher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0801887259

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France and the American Tropics to 1700 by Philip P. Boucher Pdf

This original narrative demonstrates that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was more gradual in the French properties than generally depicted--and that it was not inevitable.--Robert Forster, The Johns Hopkins University "Journal of World History"

Author : Edward Wilber Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Paleobotany
ISBN : NYPL:33433011683640

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The Lower Eocene Floras of Southeastern North America by Edward Wilber Berry Pdf

Author : John E. Jennings
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355734274

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Our American Tropics by John E. Jennings Pdf

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