Author: Redfield, Peter
Title: Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxii,345 pp. Textual photo illustrations. ISBN: 0520219848. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Preface: The Edge of the World; Islands & Disciplines: Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, & the Horizon of Technology; History on the West Coast; Colonial Ground: Botany Bay to Devil's Island; The Natural Prison; Modern Sky: A Gate to the Heavens; The Margin of the Future; Worlds in Motion: Tropics of Nature; The Nature of Work; The Imperfect Equator.

Keywords: 0520219848 French Guiana, Centre Spatial, Colonial History, Geography, South America, Human Ecology, Economics Space, Economy, France Colonialism