J. Beattie

Empire and Environmental Anxiety

Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-55320-0
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780230553200
• ISBN-10: 0230553206
• Artikelnr.: 33252911

Autorenporträt

JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on the Author Introduction Origins of Environmental Anxieties Imperial Health Anxieties Colonial Aesthetic Anxieties Scottish-trained Doctors: Environmental Anxieties and Imperial Development, 1780s-1870s German Science and Imperial Forestry, 1840s-1900s South Asian and Australasian Forestry: Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s-1920s Thwarting Imperial Agricultural Development: The Spectre of Drifting Sands, 1800s-1920s Conclusion Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Beattie's monograph greatly adds to our understanding of the origins and development of conservation policies in the British Empire. ... It provides the most balanced and through assessment of how global and local forces shaped conservation policies in the nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. ... This is an important book that will help to recast our understanding of conservation in the British Empire." (Brett M. Bennett, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14 (1), 2012)

'...a rich and complex book..' -Journal of the Australian Garden History Society