American tropics : the Caribbean roots of biodiversity science / Megan Raby

Englisch

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

xi, 319 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Includes bibliographical references and index

1711

978-1-4696-3560-6 : pbk

978-1-4696-3559-0 : cloth

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4696-3561-3 (Fernzugriff)

*Karibik / Biodiversität / Feldforschung / Geschichte 1900-2000

*Biodiversity -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Biology -- Fieldwork -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century ; Biology -- Fieldwork -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area ; Biology -- Fieldwork -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1897-1901 ; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: QH541.15.B56

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 333.95

"By examining U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War and the construction of the Panama Canal through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Raby demonstrates how research in tropical biology developed in tandem with the southward expansion of U.S. empire and argues that both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern biodiversity discourse were developed in significant part through U.S. biologists' encounters with the Caribbean. In doing so, Raby brings to the forefront a ... neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire. While historians of science and environment have shown interest in the application of U.S. ecological and environmental ideas in the tropical world, this study demonstrates how that knowledge also flowed in the other direction"--

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