Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies

(Part of the Atlantic Crossings Series)

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Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean

In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0817318585

ISBN13:9780817318581

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:University Alabama Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies

(Part of the Atlantic Crossings Series)

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