Sea and Land by Philip D. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mu... - 9780197555453

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Sea and LandAn Environmental History of the Caribbean\nAuthor(s): Philip D. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, Stuart B. Schwartz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197555453, 978-0197555453\nSynopsis\nSea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and as far away as Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to the region and the environmental transformations that followed. It then turns to the even more dramatic changes that accompanied the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the fifteenth century. Throughout it argues that the constant arrival, dispersal, and mingling of new plants and animals gave rise to a cr.