Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998

by Peter Hulme

In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of
mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112157
• ISBN13: 9780198112150
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.