Environment and Empire

Name: Environment and Empire
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ISBN: 9780199562510

ISBN-10: 0199562512

ISBN-13: 9780199562510

Edition: 2009

Authors: William Beinart, Lotte Hughes, Oxford Staff

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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 timberand 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…

Book details

List price: $46.49
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Introduction



Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations



The Fur Trade in Canada



Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa



Imperial Travellers



Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia



Forests and Forestry in India



Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt



Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race



Plague and Urban Environments



Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa



Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation



Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature



Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia



Oil Extraction in the Middle East: the Kuwait Experience



Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management



National Parks and the Growth of Tourism



The Post-Imperial Urban Environment



Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge