Description: Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean : Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making, Paperback by Crawford, Sharika D., ISBN 1469660210, ISBN-13 9781469660219, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean.
Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the regions diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the regions raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the regions ecological sustainability.
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Book Title: Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean : Waterscapes of Labor, Conservat
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean : Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Animals / Marine Life, Latin America / Central America, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Nature, Technology & Engineering, History
Author: Sharika D. Crawford
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
