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American tropics

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9781469635613

9781469635620

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9781469635590

9781469635606

American tropics

[Book]

the Caribbean roots of biodiversity science

Megan Raby

Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Press

[2017]

1 online resource

Flows, migrations, and exchanges

Includes bibliographical references and index

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction: From Tropicality to Biodiversity -- Chapter One: An American Tropical Laboratory -- Chapter Two: Making Biology Tropical -- Chapter Three: Jungle Island -- Chapter Four: The Question of Diversity -- Chapter Five: A Global Resource -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Ecology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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"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"--

American tropics

9781469635590

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.

Biodiversity

Biology-- Fieldwork

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Real Estate-- General

Diplomatic relations

United States, Foreign relations, 1897-1901.

United States, Foreign relations, 20th century.

Caribbean Area

United States

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Raby, Megan

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