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Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies / edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, Tom, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology--Europe--Colonies--History.
- Ecology.
- Land settlement--Europe--Colonies--History.
- Land settlement.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Europe--Colonies--History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Other Title:
- Ecology & empire
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Keele University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ecology and Empire examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. For the first time it moves the debate beyond the North American frontier by comparing the experience of settler societies in Australia, South Africa and Latin America. From Australian water management and the crisis of deforestation in Latin America, to beef farming in the Transvaal, this topical book provides a broad comparative historical approach to the impact of humanity on the ecological systems on which settler societies base their livelihood.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction. Ecology and Empire: Towards an Australian history o f the world
- Part I. Ecologies of Invasion
- Chapter 1. Frontiers of fire
- Chapter 2. The nature of Australia
- Chapter 3. The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems
- Part 2. The Empire of Science
- Chapter 4. Ecology: a science of empire?
- Chapter 5. Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies
- Chapter 6. Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape
- Chapter 7. Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia
- Part 3. Nature and Nation
- Chapter 8. Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience
- Chapter 9. Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism
- Chapter 10. Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia’s ecological frontiers
- Part 4. Economy and Ecology
- Chapter 11. Ecology, imperialism and deforestation
- Chapter 12. Global developments and Latin American environments
- Chapter 13. The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942
- Part 5. Comparing Settler Societies
- Chapter 14. Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment
- Chapter 15. Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6865-9
- 0-585-19312-6
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