Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998

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In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of
mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198112157

ISBN13:9780198112150

Release Date:February 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

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