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Environments of empire : networks and agents of ecological change / edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Human ecology.
- Human ecology--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Global environmental change--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Global environmental change.
- Global environmental change--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Environmental sciences--History.
- Environmental sciences.
- Europe--Colonies--History.
- Europe.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Advances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.
- Contents:
- The transformation of an ecological policy : acclimatization of Cuban tobacco varieties and public scandalization in the French empire, c. 1860-1880 / Alexander van Wickeren
- Securing resources for the industries of Wilhelmine Germany : tropical agriculture and phytopathology in Cameroon and Togo, 1884-1914 / Samuel Eleazar Wendt
- French mandate Syria and Lebanon : land, ecological interventions and the "modern" state / Idir Ouahes
- Science, to understand the abundance of plants and trees : the first Ottoman Natural History Museum and Herbarium, 1836-1848 / Semih Celik
- Inventing colonial agronomy : Buitenzorg and the transition from the Western to the Eastern model of colonial agriculture, 1880s-1930s / Florian Wagner
- Discovery and patriarchy : professionalization of botany and the distancing of women and "others" / Carey McCormack
- Animal-skinners : a transcolonial network and the formation of West African zoology / Stephanie Zehnle
- Adapting to change in Australian estuaries : oysters in the techno-fix cycles of colonial capitalism / Jodi Frawley
- Brumbies (Equus ferus caballus) as colonizers of the Esperance Mallee-Recherche bioregion in Western Australia / Nicole Chalmer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908589-2-4
- 979-88-908589-3-1
- 1-4696-5594-2
- 1-4696-5595-0
- OCLC:
- 1140970065
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