03378nam 2200709 a 450 991045215020332120200520144314.00-19-191754-01-281-16419-497866111641950-19-156628-41-4356-1766-5(CKB)1000000000479866(EBL)415277(OCoLC)437093423(SSID)ssj0000148177(PQKBManifestationID)11177029(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148177(PQKBWorkID)10018716(PQKB)10666778(MiAaPQ)EBC415277(StDuBDS)EDZ0002351275(Au-PeEL)EBL415277(CaPaEBR)ebr10212277(CaONFJC)MIL116419(EXLCZ)99100000000047986620070517d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEnvironment and empire[electronic resource] /William Beinart and Lotte HughesOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (410 p.)Oxford history of the British Empire companion seriesPreviously issued in print: 2007.0-19-956251-2 0-19-926031-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index.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 Conservation13. 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; IndexThis 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.Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.Human ecologyGreat BritainNatural resourcesGreat BritainPlant ecologyGreat BritainGreat BritainColoniesEnvironmental conditionsElectronic books.Human ecologyNatural resourcesPlant ecology304.209171/241Beinart William147053Hughes Lotte915645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452150203321Environment and empire2052612UNINA