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Barton Greg (Gregory Allen) |
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Empire forestry and the origins of environmentalism / / Gregory Allen Barton |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-13365-3 |
0-511-04248-5 |
1-280-43411-2 |
9786610434114 |
0-511-17781-X |
0-511-14825-9 |
0-511-30523-0 |
0-511-49362-2 |
0-511-04561-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; ; 34 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Forests and forestry - Colonies - Great Britain - History |
Forest management - History |
Environmentalism - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. The great interference -- 3. Empire forestry and British India -- 4. Environmental innovation in British India -- 5. Empire forestry and the colonies -- 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism -- 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt |
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