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Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.]
| Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AxChristina Folke |
| Collana | Ohio University Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects
Imperialism - Health aspects Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History Environmental policy - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-89680-479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457249403321 |
| Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.]
| Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AxChristina Folke |
| Collana | Ohio University Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects
Imperialism - Health aspects Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History Environmental policy - History |
| ISBN | 0-89680-479-8 |
| Classificazione | HIS037000NAT024000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781684903321 |
| Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire and Catastrophe : Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 / / Spencer D. Segalla
| Empire and Catastrophe : Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 / / Spencer D. Segalla |
| Autore | Segalla Spencer D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged) : : maps |
| Disciplina | 325.344 |
| Collana | France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - France
Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - Morocco Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - Algeria Imperialism - Environmental aspects Decolonization - Morocco Decolonization - Algeria |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4962-2215-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910393959503321 |
Segalla Spencer D.
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin
| Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations 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 / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452067103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin
| Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations 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 / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778356203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
| Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456888403321 |
| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
| Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
| ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781647103321 |
| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor [[electronic resource] /] / Rob Nixon
| Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor [[electronic resource] /] / Rob Nixon |
| Autore | Nixon Rob <1954-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
American literature - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature Human ecology in literature Postcolonialism in literature Colonies in literature Ecocriticism Human security Poor - Developing countries Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-674-24799-X
0-674-06119-5 |
| Classificazione | EC 1850 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque -- 2. Fast-forward Fossil -- 3. Pipedreams -- 4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- 5. Unimagined Communities -- 6. Stranger in the Eco-village -- 7. Ecologies of the Aftermath -- 8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457788403321 |
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| Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 | ||
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Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor [[electronic resource] /] / Rob Nixon
| Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor [[electronic resource] /] / Rob Nixon |
| Autore | Nixon Rob <1954-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
American literature - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature Human ecology in literature Postcolonialism in literature Colonies in literature Ecocriticism Human security Poor - Developing countries Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects |
| ISBN |
0-674-24799-X
0-674-06119-5 |
| Classificazione | EC 1850 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque -- 2. Fast-forward Fossil -- 3. Pipedreams -- 4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- 5. Unimagined Communities -- 6. Stranger in the Eco-village -- 7. Ecologies of the Aftermath -- 8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781652803321 |
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| Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 | ||
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Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / / Rob Nixon
| Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / / Rob Nixon |
| Autore | Nixon Rob <1954-, > |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
American literature - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature Human ecology in literature Postcolonialism in literature Colonies in literature Ecocriticism Human security Poor - Developing countries Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects |
| ISBN |
9780674072343
9780674049307 9780674247994 067424799X 9780674061194 0674061195 |
| Classificazione | EC 1850 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque -- 2. Fast-forward Fossil -- 3. Pipedreams -- 4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- 5. Unimagined Communities -- 6. Stranger in the Eco-village -- 7. Ecologies of the Aftermath -- 8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910963532903321 |
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