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Autore: | Beinart William |
Titolo: | Environment and empire [[electronic resource] /] / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.209171/241 |
Soggetto topico: | Human ecology - Great Britain |
Natural resources - Great Britain | |
Plant ecology - Great Britain | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies Environmental conditions |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | HughesLotte |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2007. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Environment and empire |
ISBN: | 0-19-191754-0 |
1-281-16419-4 | |
9786611164195 | |
0-19-156628-4 | |
1-4356-1766-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452150203321 |
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