Environment and empire / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes.

Environment 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...

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Main Authors: Beinart, William (Author), Hughes, Lotte (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
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505 0 |a Cover -- 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 -- Last Page. 
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