Arnab Dey

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture

Imperial Disarray in Eastern India

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinks the tea plantation economy of colonial east India by highlighting its human and non-human networks and practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 188mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471305
• ISBN-10: 1108471307
• Artikelnr.: 53301571

Autorenporträt

Arnab Dey is Assistant Professor of Modern Indian History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interests span the fields of labor, political economy, law, and environmental history. He has held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Planting empires
2. Agriculture or manufacture?
3. Bugs in the garden
4. Death in the fields
5. Conservation or commerce?
6. Plant and politics
Conclusion.