یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
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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یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"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"--
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
American tropics
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9781469635590
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Biodiversity-- United States-- History-- 20th century.