Detrimental determinists: Applied environmentalism as bureaucratic self-interest in the fin-de-siècle British Caribbean

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-234

  Richardson, Bonham C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

British Colonial Office; Bureaucracy; Caribbean; Colonialism; Environmental determinism

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL PERIOD; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM; HISTORICAL STUDY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL HISTORY; RACIAL SUPERIORITY; SOCIAL CONTROL;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0030461355     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01751.x     Document Type: Article

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