Environment and empire / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beinart, William.

Contributor:

Hughes, Lotte.

Series:

Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.

Oxford history of the British Empire companion series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Great Britain.

Human ecology.

Natural resources--Great Britain.

Natural resources.

Plant ecology--Great Britain.

Plant ecology.

Great Britain--Colonies--Environmental conditions.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

395 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this fascinating new study examines a key global historical process of the last 500 years. British imperial authorities were concerned about overexploitation and the potential risks to nature and material production, and this bookexamines the rise of conservation as a result. It also looks at political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources, who in a post-imperial age have found a new voice, expressing ideas about landscape and heritage, and challenging views of who 'owns', and may regulate, nature.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction

2. Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Caribbean Plantations

3. The Fur Trade in Canada

4. Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa

5. Imperial Travellers

6. Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia

7. Forests and Forestry in India

8. Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt

9. Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race

10. Plague and Urban Environments

11. Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa

12. Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation

13. Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature

14. Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia

15. Oil Extraction in the Middle East: The Kuwait Experience

16. Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management

17. National Parks and the Growth of Tourism

18. The Post-Imperial Urban Environment

19. Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge

Select Bibliography

Index

A

B

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E

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K

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M

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-191754-0

9786611164195

1-281-16419-4

1-4356-1766-5

0-19-156628-4

OCLC:

437093423