Environment and empire [[electronic resource] /] / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452150203321
• Autore: Beinart William
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-191754-0; 1-281-16419-4; 9786611164195; 0-19-156628-4; 1-4356-1766-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Collana: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
• Altri autori (Persone): HughesLotte
• Disciplina: 304.209171/241
• Soggetti: Human ecology - Great Britain; Natural resources - Great Britain; Plant ecology - Great Britain; Electronic books.; Great Britain Colonies Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Caribbean Plantations; 3. The Fur Trade in Canada; 4. Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa; 5. Imperial Travelers; 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; Select Bibliography; ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume uncovers the 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 study examines a key global historical process.