Title The last turtlemen of the Caribbean : waterscapes of labor, conservation, and boundary making / Sharika D. Crawford

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. Contents Sages of the sea : turtles in the greater Caribbean -- Out to sea : labor and the Caymanian turtle fishery, 1880s-1950s -- A contact zone : mobility, commerce, and kinship in the western Caribbean, 1850s-1940s -- Limits at sea : state claims, territorial consolidation, and boundary disputes, 1880s-1950s -- Save the turtles : the rise of sea turtle conservationism, 1940s-1970s Summary "Crawford begins in the sixteenth century, laying out the stakes for the British and Spanish empires that first viewed the Caribbean as "an Atlantic commons"--An open space where all could compete to control diverse Caribbean peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region's raw materials. Turning to 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 had 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, today, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region's ecological sustainability"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-191) and index Subject Sea turtles -- Conservation -- Caribbean Area Maritime boundaries -- Caribbean Area -- History Sea turtle fisheries -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area Sea turtle fisheries -- Cayman Islands -- History -- 20th century Sea turtle fisheries -- Cayman Islands -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General. Maritime boundaries Sea turtle fisheries Caribbean Area Cayman Islands Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469660233 1469660237 9781469660226 1469660229

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