Ecology And Empire
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Ecology And Empire
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Author : Tom Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1997
Ecology And Empire written by Tom Griffiths and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
Ecology and Empire forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized peripheries, the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this to a range of lands of empire. It uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience. Ecology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artifact of empire, drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science.
Ecology And Empire
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Author : Tom Griffiths
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Ecology And Empire written by Tom Griffiths and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Colonies categories.
Reflects the growing awareness of the relationship between the expansion of empires and the environmental experience of the extra- European world. It provides a comparative historical approach to the impact of mankind on the ecological systems on which the settler societies were ultimately based.
Ecology Climate And Empire
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Author : Richard H. Grove
language : en
Publisher: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Release Date : 1997
Ecology Climate And Empire written by Richard H. Grove and has been published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
"This collection of essays from a pioneering scholar in the field of environmental history vividly demonstrates that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. Grove traces the origins of present-day environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation and climate change in the writings of early colonial administrators, doctors and missionaries. He traces what is known and what can be inferred concerning historic El Nino events centuries before the devastating 1997/98 instance. In an important and wide-ranging concluding essay he analyses the general significance of 'marginal' land and its ecology in the history of popular resistance movements."--Amazon.com.
Ecology And Power In The Age Of Empire
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Author : Corey Ross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Ecology And Power In The Age Of Empire written by Corey Ross and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with History categories.
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management-transformations that still visibly shape our world today-and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented a sudden bout of ecological devastation, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.
Environment And Empire
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Author : William Beinart
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-10-11
Environment And Empire written by William Beinart and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-11 with History categories.
European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil. They established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies. Settlers introduced new methods of farming and displaced indigenous peoples. Colonial cities, many of which became great conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people and nature. Consumer cultures, the internal combustion engine, and pollution are now ubiquitous. Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction between people and other elements in the natural world, and this book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped empire and environmental change, Environment and Empire discusses the way in which British consumers and manufacturers sucked in resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed. Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources. In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate nature.
Ecology And Empire
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Author : Gary Seaman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Ecology And Empire written by Gary Seaman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Nomads categories.
Environments And Historical Change
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Author : Paul Slack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Environments And Historical Change written by Paul Slack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Present anxieties about global warming and threats to biodiversity leave no doubts that environmental changes impact upon humans. Perceptions of the environment change as people try to define and shape 'nature' in different ways. The book explores the relationship between environmental change and society from the last Ice Age to the present. The book examines the environmental impact of fluctuations in climate and the demand for energy, and the patters which human societies have imposed on their surroundings, from boundaries to the cultural projections of legends and film. Together they show how insights from the disciplines of geography and geography, history and anthropology, can throw fresh light on the long-term attachment of people to place. The chapters in this book were originally delivered as Linacre Lectures at Linacre College, Oxford University
Bibliography Of Imperial Colonial And Commonwealth History Since 1600
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Author : Andrew N. Porter
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2002
Bibliography Of Imperial Colonial And Commonwealth History Since 1600 written by Andrew N. Porter and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented growth of research and publication on the history of Britain's empire, the Commonwealth, and British expansion overseas. Historical work by area specialists has transformed the state of knowledge concerning colonial North America, India, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, the Pacific, and Australasia. Much has been written about Britain's interests and presence in areas and societies never formally subjected to British rule, such as Latin America, and the Middle and Far East. Most recently, a preoccupation with the reciprocal impact of overseas expansion and colonial possessions on Britain itself has produced a rapidly growing historiography. Publication on this scale has made it virtually impossible for anyone either to keep track of the results or to follow up particular interests. Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.
Australian Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Australian Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Books categories.
Triumph Of The Expert
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Author : Joseph Morgan Hodge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Triumph Of The Expert written by Joseph Morgan Hodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial policy and thinking and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period.