[SEMCO] March 12 Boston Seminar on Environmental History

[Katy Morris]

The Boston Seminar on Environmental History Presents:



Biological Exchange in the Pacific World in the Age of Industrial Sugarcane Plantations



Tuesday, March 12, 2019

5:15-7:30pm

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA



Author: Lawrence Kessler, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Comment: Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut



This paper traces how sugarcane planters directed circulations of plant and animal species in the Pacific World. This new biological exchange served the political and economic interests of the plantation owners and their allies. Planters, however, were unable to control the biological exchange processes they created. This paper thus argues that through the creation of new patterns of biological exchange, sugarcane plantations induced ecological changes throughout the Pacific World.



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