William Beinart, Lotte Hughes

Environment and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this fascinating new study examines a key global historical process of the last 500 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562510
• ISBN-10: 0199562512
• Artikelnr.: 25684035

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations
3: The Fur Trade in Canada
4: Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa
5: Imperial Travellers
6: Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia
7: Forests and Forestry in India
8: Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt
9: Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race
10: Plague and Urban Environments
11: Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa
12: Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation
13: Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature
14: Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia
15: Oil Extraction in the Middle East: the Kuwait Experience
16: Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management
17: National Parks and the Growth of Tourism
18: The Post-Imperial Urban Environment
19: Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge