Cultivating the colonies : colonial states and their environmental legacies / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ax, Christina Folke.

Series:

Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 12.

Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--Environmental aspects.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Health aspects.

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

History.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.

Nature.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Environmental policy--History.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2011]

Summary:

" The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally "got their hands dirty" in the business of empire. The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India. They are global in scope, ranging from the Russian North to Mozambique, examining the consequences of colonialism on nature, including its impact on animals, fisheries, farmlands, medical practices, and even the diets of indigenous people. Cultivating the Colonies establishes beyond all possible doubt the importance of the environment as a locus for studying the power of the colonial state. "-- Provided by publisher.

"The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice. The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India. They are global in scope, ranging from the Russian North to Mozambique, examining the consequences of colonialism on nature, including its impact on animals, fisheries, farmlands, medical practices, and even the diets of indigenous people"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear

Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach

The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines / Greg Bankoff

Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs

Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris

Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus

Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn

State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum

Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker

Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0896802825

9780896802827

OCLC:

682895094

Publisher Number:

99946135278