LEADER 03686nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910809782503321 005 20240418142225.0 010 $a0-19-191754-0 010 $a9786611164195 010 $a1-281-16419-4 010 $a1-4356-1766-5 010 $a0-19-156628-4 035 $a(CKB)24235082000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7038529 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10212277 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL116419 035 $a(OCoLC)437093423 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235082000041 100 $a20070517d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnvironment and empire /$fWilliam Beinart and Lotte Hughes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a395 p. $cill., maps 225 1 $aOxford history of the British Empire companion series 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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 Travellers -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 330 $aEnvironment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this fascinating new study examines a key global historical process of the last 500 years. British imperial authorities were concerned about overexploitation and the potential risks to nature and material production, and this bookexamines the rise of conservation as a result. It also looks at political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources, who in a post-imperial age have found a new voice, expressing ideas about landscape and heritage, and challenging views of who 'owns', and may regulate, nature. 410 0$aOxford history of the British Empire companion series. 606 $aHuman ecology$zGreat Britain 606 $aNatural resources$zGreat Britain 606 $aPlant ecology$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xEnvironmental conditions 615 0$aHuman ecology 615 0$aNatural resources 615 0$aPlant ecology 676 $a304.209171/241 700 $aBeinart$b William$0147053 701 $aHughes$b Lotte$01615817 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809782503321 996 $aEnvironment and empire$94104709 997 $aUNINA