LEADER 05314nam 22007094a 450 001 9910465613103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-151546-9 010 $a1-280-75817-1 010 $a9786610758173 010 $a1-4294-2187-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295068 035 $a(EBL)422715 035 $a(OCoLC)191924138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175480 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188521 035 $a(PQKB)10350243 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10160557 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL75817 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295068 100 $a20050919d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernizing nature$b[electronic resource] $eforestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950 /$fS. Ravi Rajan 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 225 1 $aOxford historical monographs 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-927796-6 311 $a0-19-170782-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [242]-265) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Figures and Tables; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Science and Colonial Environmental History; 1.2. The Case of British Colonial Forestry; 1.2.1. Historical Overview; 1.2.2. Historiographical Overview; 1.3. The Framework of the Book; 1.3.1. The Outline of the Chapters; 2. A Contract with Nature; 2.1. The Climatic Benefits of Forests; 2.2. The Continental Forestry Tradition; 2.2.1. Stages in the Development of German Forestry: A Brief Overview; 2.2.2. German Forestry as an Ideology of Resource Use; 2.2.3. German Forestry and Society; 2.2.4. French Forestry 327 $a2.2.5. Modern French Forestry and People2.3. Resonant Themes; 2.3.1. Modernizing Nature; 2.3.2. Emancipatory Appropriation and Technocracy; 2.4. Conclusion; 3. The Empire of Nature; 3.1. The Campaign for Forest Conservancy in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; 3.1.1. Forests and Climate; 3.1.2. The Ethos of Colonial Science and the Economic Argument for Conservation; 3.1.3. The Campaign for Forest Conservancy in the Cape; 3.2. The Onset of Continental Forestry in the British Empire; 3.2.1. Indian Foresters and Forest Management; 3.2.2. Indian Forestry as an Attitude to Nature 327 $a3.2.3. Indian Forestry and Society3.2.4. Foresters and Other Colonial Officials; 3.2.5. Empire Forestry, 1850-1900: The Wider Scenario; 3.3. Conclusions; 4. The Empire Strikes Back; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The Contexts of the Empire Forestry Conferences; 4.2.1. Changing Attitudes to Science Policy; 4.2.2. The First World War and Forestry; 4.2.3. The Origins of the Empire Forestry Conferences; 4.2.4. Science, Colonial Development, and Conferences, 1928-1952; 4.3. Foresters and Colonial Forest Policy; 4.3.1. Forest Policy at the Empire Forestry Conferences; 4.4. Conclusion 327 $a5. The Imperial Environmentalist5.1. Paradigm Articulation; 5.1.1. The 'Classical' Problems; 5.1.2. Organization and Institution Building for Research; 5.1.3. Resonant Themes; 5.2. Agro-forestry Dilemmas; 5.2.1. Empire Foresters and the Debate on Shifting Cultivation; 5.2.2. Foresters and the Politics of Soil Erosion; 5.2.3. Wider Issues; 5.2.4. Resonant Themes; 5.3. Conclusion; 6. The Contested Legacy; 6.1. The Nature of Colonial Forestry: A Revisionist Account; 6.2. Postscript: Widening the Argument; Appendix 1: Syllabus and Coursework at Nancy 327 $aAppendix 2: Brief Profiles of Some Colonial Scientist-Conservationists in India in the Period 1800-1850Appendix 3: A List of Participants at the Empire Forestry Conferences; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 330 $aProfessor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. He disagrees with those historiographical and social scientific approaches that look upon science and scientific institutions instrumentally as 'tools of empire'. Rather, he argues that the 'colonial' sciences had cognitive, ideological, and interventionist traditions distinct from each other and from the colonial bureaucracy and that histories of science, environmental management, and indeed of the colonial state, must co 410 0$aOxford historical monographs. 606 $aForest management$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aForest management$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aForest management$xHistory 615 0$aForest management$xHistory 676 $a634.9/209034 700 $aRajan$b S. Ravi$0863738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465613103321 996 $aModernizing nature$91927845 997 $aUNINA