{"id":296,"date":"2009-03-17T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2009\/03\/17\/environmental-history-of-hispaniola-march-12-april-30\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:06:52","slug":"environmental-history-of-hispaniola-march-12-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/environmental-history-of-hispaniola-march-12-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental History of Hispaniola, March 12 &#8211; April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/libweb\/exhibits\/images\/hispaniola.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"><strong>Environmental History of Hispaniola<\/strong><br \/>\nAn exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Patrick Sylvain, Max Clermont, Deborah Saint-Vil and Kona Shen<br \/>\n<strong>March 12 &#8211; April 30, 2009<br \/>\nJohn Hay Library<\/strong><br \/>\nHaiti and the Dominican Republic share the land area of the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola. Although both of these former colonies of Spain and France have faced socioeconomic hardships and political instability in their post-colonial period, they show a sharp contrast in the current state of their natural resources.<br \/>\nThis exhibition traces the environmental history of Hispaniola from pre-Columbian times to the present and explores the evolution of its natural resources by highlighting special collection materials from the John Hay and John Carter Brown Libraries, and museum objects from the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.<br \/>\nSponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Brown University Library.<br \/>\nFor further information contact Patricia_Figueroa@brown.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental History of Hispaniola An exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Patrick Sylvain, Max Clermont, Deborah Saint-Vil and Kona Shen March 12 &#8211; April 30, 2009 John Hay Library Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the land area of the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola. Although both of these former colonies <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/environmental-history-of-hispaniola-march-12-april-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Environmental History of Hispaniola, March 12 &#8211; April 30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}