Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands  -  Milica Prokić

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Place-centric island histories The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as frontiers and stepping stones of empires. However, the role that island environments have played in creating and shaping these histories has so far received little attention. To understand why an island became a penal colony, an atomic test site or a tourist ...
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2024 Uitgever: White Horse Press 368 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1912186837 ISBN-13: 9781912186839