Green Imperialism Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860

Name: Green Imperialism Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
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ISBN: 9780521565134

ISBN-10: 0521565138

ISBN-13: 9780521565134

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard H. Grove, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster

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This book documents the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects.

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



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Acknowledgements


Introduction



Edens, islands and early empires



Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature



The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies



Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763



Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime



Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800



The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768-1838



Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857





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