Richard H. Grove (Canberra Australian National University)

Green Imperialism

Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 1860
Herausgeber: Crosby, Alfred W.; Worster, Donald

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking. For the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 900g
• ISBN-13: 9780521565134
• ISBN-10: 0521565138
• Artikelnr.: 22431216

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Edens, islands
and early empires; 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of
South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature;
3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century
environmental crisis in the colonies; 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian
antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763; 5. Protecting the
climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under
the ancien regime; 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the
British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800; 7. The
beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic
islands and the East India Company, 1768-1838; 8. Diagnosing crisis: the
East India Company medical services and the emergence of state
conservationism in India, 1760-1857; Conclusion: the colonial state and the
origins of western environmentalism; Select bibliography, Index.