GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Island Life, Pineapple, Acute Radiation Syndrome
6 May 2018
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GEOG 1000
January 8, 2018
Introduction to Geographies of Islands
Five Geographical Histories
Hawaii and the island of Maui
● Shifting to Caribbean and Latin America
Gardens and Paradise (1)
● European history of exploration
● How did the idea of Paradise emerge?
● Exploration, trade, conquest: looking for Garden of Eden
● Paradise means “walled enclosure”
● Tropical islands are paradise and Gardens
● Moment 2
○ As “other” to the Industrial Revolution
○ Working class was poor and starving
○ “If was can just push things forward enough and distribute equally, things will
work out” - Marxists
○ Romantics - primitive societies are the best
○ Tahiti, portrayed as paradise (Guagan)
● Jurassic Park filmed in Muai
● Botanical Gardens - gardens filled with interesting plants
● One side of the Island gets a massive amount of rain (East side) the other is barren
and dry (West side)
● The desert area is the tourist destination - tourists don’t like rain, enjoy the garden
● Pumps water from the east to the west to create gardens
For whom were islands not a tropical Paradise? (2)
● Slaves
● History of plantations, slave, and forced labour
● First plantations were largely sugar
● 4 million people brought to Caribbean from Africa
● Based in violence
● How sugar entered into the diets of English people
● Indentured Labour
● Maui: pineapple plantations
● First major plantation crop in Maui was Sugar, first plantations key to slavery
● They brought workers from Japan and China to work on Plantations
Military has often used islands to test explosives - testing weapons of war
● Unexploded ammunition on an island made it uninhabitable, ongoing effort to make it
habitable again
● Spongebob is mutant
● 20 Nuclear bombs were tested on the Bikini Atolls - Marshall Islands
● Hundreds of bombs are dropped in the region (above ground nuclear testing)
Document Summary
Exploration, trade, conquest: looking for garden of eden. If was can just push things forward enough and distribute equally, things will work out - marxists. Romantics - primitive societies are the best. Botanical gardens - gardens filled with interesting plants. One side of the island gets a massive amount of rain (east side) the other is barren and dry (west side) The desert area is the tourist destination - tourists don"t like rain, enjoy the garden. Pumps water from the east to the west to create gardens. For whom were islands not a tropical paradise? (2) History of plantations, slave, and forced labour. 4 million people brought to caribbean from africa. How sugar entered into the diets of english people. First major plantation crop in maui was sugar, first plantations key to slavery. They brought workers from japan and china to work on plantations. Military has often used islands to test explosives - testing weapons of war.
