Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies

by Jefferson Dillman

Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean

In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318585
• ISBN13: 9780817318581
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"