Islands, forests and gardens in the Caribbean
Subtitle: conservation and conflict in environmental history
By: edited by Robert S. Anderson, Richard Grove and Karis Hiebert ; with a foreword by Sir James F. Mitchell.
Contributors: Anderson, Robert S., 1942-; Grove, Richard; Hiebert, Karis.; Guilding, Lansdown, 1791-1831.
Series: Warwick University Caribbean studies; Warwick University Caribbean studies
Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Botanical gardens -- West Indies -- History.; Gardens -- West Indies -- History.; Forests and forestry -- West Indies -- History.; Forest conservation -- West Indies -- History.; Human ecology -- West Indies -- History.
Notes: Appendix (p. 214-[262]) is facsim. reprod. of: An account of the botanic garden in the island of St. Vincent, from its first establishment to the present time / by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding. Forge Village, Mass. : Reprinted for the Arnold Arboretum by the Murray Printing Co., 1964. Originally published: Glasgow : R. Griffin & Co., 1825.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Gardens and forests on Caribbean islands : two hundred years of environmental institutions / Robert S. Anderson; value: "To have a garden is to be a man" : Caribs and the transformation of the landscape / Lennox Honychurch; value: Environmental institutions, legislation, and environmental change in the early eastern Caribbean island settlements / David Watts; value: Botanical gardens : connecting links in plant transfer between the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions / Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane; value: Gardens and forests in colonial Saint Domingue / James E. McClellan III; value: Le Jardin Colonial des Plantes of Martinique / Clarissa Kimber; value: The St. Vincent Botanic Garden : the early years / Richard A. Howard; value: The British Empire and the origins of forest conservation in the eastern Caribbean, 1700-1800 / Richard Grove; value: Mountain, bush, and garden : the historical context of environmental conflict on St. Vincent / Adrian Fraser; value: Recent studies of the Kings Hill Forest Reserve on St. Vincent / Michael Kidston ... [et al.]; value: "Bush," "garden," and "mountain" on the leeward coast of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1719-1995 / Hymie Rubenstein.