LEADER 06105nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910778356203321 005 20230721031836.0 010 $a1-282-26580-6 010 $a9786612265808 010 $a94-012-0474-8 010 $a1-4356-1242-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204743 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480513 035 $a(EBL)556666 035 $a(OCoLC)666985353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155770 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156771 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155770 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10114222 035 $a(PQKB)10168193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556666 035 $a(OCoLC)666985353$z(OCoLC)182848341$z(OCoLC)712988579$z(OCoLC)764536062$z(OCoLC)961485354$z(OCoLC)962647545$z(OCoLC)966207400$z(OCoLC)988475430$z(OCoLC)991955328 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380275 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226580 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480513 100 $a20070921d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFive emus to the king of Siam$b[electronic resource] $eenvironment and empire /$fedited by Hellen Tiffin 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures,$x0924-1426 ;$v92 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2243-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tEmpire?s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment /$rLeigh Dale -- $tRepresentations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope?s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude?s The English in the West Indies /$rClaudia Brandenstein -- $tPolluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism /$rMeenakshi Sharma -- $tEcotourism: A Colonial Legacy? /$rHelen Gilbert -- $tColonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes /$rAndrew Mccann -- $t?Transported Landscapes?: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific /$rRuth Blair -- $tThe ?I? in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl?s Pilgrims of the Wild /$rCarrie Dawson -- $tThe Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State /$rRobert Dixon -- $tPlanting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations /$rAnna Johnston -- $tFive Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism /$rChris Tiffin -- $t?Back to the World?: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context /$rSusie O?Brien -- $tViews from Van Diemen?s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover?s Landscapes /$rCatherine Howell -- $tColonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment /$rJo Robertson -- $t?The Animals Are Innocent?: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa /$rGillian Whitlock -- $tContributors -- $tIndex. 330 $aWestern exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ?human?, ?savage?, ?civilised?, ?natural?, ?progressive?, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal ?exchange?, by the transport of animals, plants and peoples throughout the European empires, instigating widespread ecosystem change under unequal power regimes (a harbinger of today?s ?globalization?). This book considers these imperial ?exchanges? and charts some contemporary legacies of those inequitable imports and exports, transportations and transmutations. Sheep farming in Australia, transforming the land as it dispossessed the native inhabitants, became a symbol of (new, white) nationhood. The transportation of plants (and animals) into and across the Pacific, even where benign or nostalgic, had widespread environmental effects, despite the hopes of the acclimatisation societies involved, and, by extension, of missionary societies ?planting the seeds of Christianity.? In the Caribbean, plantation slavery pushed back the ?jungle? (itself an imported word) and erased the indigenous occupants ? one example of the righteous, biblically justified cultivation of the wilderness. In Australia, artistic depictions of landscape, often driven by romantic and ?gothic? aesthetics, encoded contradictory settler mindsets, and literary representations of colonial Kenya mask the erasure of ecosystems. Chapters on the early twentieth century (in Canada, Kenya, and Queensland) indicate increased awareness of the value of species-preservation, conservation, and disease control. The tension between traditional and ?Euroscientific? attitudes towards conservation is revealed in attitudes towards control of the Ganges, while the urge to resource exploitation has produced critical disequilibrium in Papua New Guinea. Broader concerns centering on ecotourism and ecocriticism are treated in further essays summarising how the dominant West has alienated ?nature? from human beings through commodification in the service of capitalist ?progress?. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v92. 606 $aColonies$xEnvironmental conditions 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aImperialism$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aColonies$xEnvironmental conditions. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aImperialism$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a303.482401724 701 $aTiffin$b Helen$0175074 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778356203321 996 $aFive emus to the king of Siam$93834546 997 $aUNINA