1. On forestry issues in the British Caribbean, see R. H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
2. J. Fairhead and M. Leach, Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
3. B. C. Richardson, Igniting the Caribbean’s Past: Fire in British West Indian History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
4. D. Watts, The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
5. J. McCracken, “Experts and Expertise in Colonial Malawi,” African Affairs 81 (1982): 101–116.