Islands, forests and gardens in the Caribbean : conservation and conflict in environmental history / edited by Robert S. Anderson, Richard Grove, and Karis Hiebert ; with a foreword by Sir James F. Mitchell.
Publisher:
Macmillan Caribbean,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xxii, 266 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Appendix (p. 214-[262]) is facsim. reprod. of: An account of the botanic garden in the island of St. Vincent, from its first establishment to the present time / by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding. Forge Village, Mass. : Reprinted for the Arnold Arboretum by the Murray Printing Co., 1964. Originally published: Glasgow : R. Griffin & Co., 1825. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gardens and forests on Caribbean islands : two hundred years of environmental institutions / Robert S. Anderson -- "To have a garden is to be a man" : Caribs and the transformation of the landscape / Lennox Honychurch -- Environmental institutions, legislation, and environmental change in the early eastern Caribbean island settlements / David Watts -- Botanical gardens : connecting links in plant transfer between the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions / Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane -- Gardens and forests in colonial Saint Domingue / James E. McClellan III -- Le Jardin Colonial des Plantes of Martinique / Clarissa Kimber -- The St. Vincent Botanic Garden : the early years / Richard A. Howard -- The British Empire and the origins of forest conservation in the eastern Caribbean, 1700-1800 / Richard Grove -- Mountain, bush, and garden : the historical context of environmental conflict on St. Vincent / Adrian Fraser -- Recent studies of the Kings Hill Forest Reserve on St. Vincent / Michael Kidston ... [et al.] -- "Bush," "garden," and "mountain" on the leeward coast of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1719-1995 / Hymie Rubenstein.
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