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American Tropics - The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Hardcover)
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American Tropics - The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Hardcover)
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation
since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its
origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the
southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth
century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of
growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing
permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research.
From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of
American ""tropical biologists"" developed both the key scientific
concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of
biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of
the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the
1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science,
environmental history, and the history of U.S.-Caribbean and Latin
American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the
origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and
brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of
twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
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