Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Caribbean"
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A Free Race of Cultivators: Afro-Asian Histories, Ecologies, and Intimacies in the Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
(2021-09-10)This dissertation draws together the Indian and Atlantic Oceans while also arguing for the Haitian Revolution as a catalyst in the conscription of Chinese and Indian migrants to the early nineteenth-century Caribbean. In ... -
Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave Conversion in the Atlantic World, 1660-1760
(2013-09-23)"Christian Slavery" shows how Protestant missionaries in the early modern Atlantic World developed a new vision for slavery that integrated Christianity with human bondage. Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries arrived ... -
Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1793–1851
(2020-09-28)Settlers in the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guiana enslaved, re-enslaved or illegally trafficked many tens of thousands of free black people in the five decades between general emancipation in the 1790s ... -
Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in Puerto Rico
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)Puerto Rico is subject to frequent and severe impacts from hurricanes, whose long-term ecological role must be assessed on a scale of centuries. In this study we applied a method for reconstructing hurricane disturbance ... -
Personalizing Tradition: Surinamese Maroon Music and Dance in Contemporary Urban Practice
(2013-02-25)Through comparing the repertoires, presentational characteristics, and rehearsal procedures of Surinamese Maroon culture-based performance groups within Paramaribo, I outline the concept of personalizing tradition. This ... -
Population structure and connectivity in the Atlantic scleractinian coral Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Coral reefs are increasingly threatened worldwide by a variety of biological and physical factors, including disease, bleaching and ocean acidification. Understanding levels of connectivity among widespread populations can ... -
Report of a Cohesive Gelatinous Egg Mass Produced by a Tropical Marine Bivalve
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Gelatinous egg masses are common in a number of animal phyla. However, they are virtually unknown in marine bivalves, with structures that could be thought of as gelatinous egg masses being reported for only five species. ...