The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
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...
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| description | 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 of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean. Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the region’s diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region’s raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states’ sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region’s ecological sustainability. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1521022025-07-21T15:44:47Z The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean Crawford, Sharika D. Turtle fishing green turtles hawksbill turtles entangled frontiers Caribbean maritime disputes Cayman Islands circum-Caribbean Colombia contested frontiers Costa Rica Entangled empires Jamaica Key West maritime boundaries maritime slavery Peter Matthiesen’s last turtle voyage Archie Carr’s sea turtle conservation Mosquitia Nicaragua San Andrés and Providencia Islands Tortuguero Ernest Hemingway’s turtle fishing in Old Man and the Sea schooners. thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNC Wildlife: general interest::WNCS Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNC Wildlife: general interest::WNCS Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest 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 of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean. Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the region’s diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region’s raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states’ sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region’s ecological sustainability. 2025-02-17T06:17:28Z 2025-02-17T06:17:28Z 2025-01-28T11:31:00Z 2020 book ONIX_20250128_9798890851833_10 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98054 9798890851833 9781469660233 9781469660226 9781469660202 9798890851826 9781469660219 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152102 eng Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98054/1/9798890851833.pdf The University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469660233_Crawford 10.5149/9781469660233_Crawford f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 dcf50849-b837-420d-ac46-64995a7bf0d4 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890851833 9781469660233 9781469660226 9781469660202 9798890851826 9781469660219 University of North Carolina Press 216 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities 10.13039/100000103 open access |
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