Philip D. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry, among other books.J.R. McNeill is University Professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous works, including Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.Matthew Mulcahy is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland, whose work includes Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and the author of many books, including Sea of Storms. A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean.

The Caribbean was the first region in the Americas to bear the human and environmental stamp of European intervention, mainly through slavery and sugar monoculture. Further, it is the place from which modernity and European capitalism emergedthe modern industrial labor regime had its origin in the rigors of plantation slavery, and in the 18th century, the Caribbean became a center of European finance. This volume treats Caribbean environmental history from the first Indigenous settlement of 7,000 BCE to the mid-19th century. It comprises three sections, each with eminent authorship and a cooperatively written conclusion...[that] deals with the regions environmental history after 1850. An authoritative and accessible work for all libraries. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Philip D. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry, among other books.J.R. McNeill is University Professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous works, including Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.Matthew Mulcahy is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland, whose work includes Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and the author of many books, including Sea of Storms. A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean.

The Caribbean was the first region in the Americas to bear the human and environmental stamp of European intervention, mainly through slavery and sugar monoculture. Further, it is the place from which modernity and European capitalism emergedthe modern industrial labor regime had its origin in the rigors of plantation slavery, and in the 18th century, the Caribbean became a center of European finance. This volume treats Caribbean environmental history from the first Indigenous settlement of 7,000 BCE to the mid-19th century. It comprises three sections, each with eminent authorship and a cooperatively written conclusion...[that] deals with the regions environmental history after 1850. An authoritative and accessible work for all libraries. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.