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The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

by Sharika D. Crawford

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 o

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

216

ISBN

9781469660219