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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Taschenbuch von Corey Ross
Sprache: Englisch

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The first wide-ranging environmental history of late-nineteenth and twentieth century European imperialism, relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts they entailed and providing a historical background to the social, political, and environmental issues of the twenty-first century.
The first wide-ranging environmental history of late-nineteenth and twentieth century European imperialism, relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts they entailed and providing a historical background to the social, political, and environmental issues of the twenty-first century.
Über den Autor
Corey Ross is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and the author of several books on the history of mass media and popular culture, heritage and ancestral pasts, and everyday life under state socialism, with a particular focus on Germany. Since arriving at Birmingham in 1998, he has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, a J. Walter Thompson Fellowship at Duke University, a guest professorship at the Université Paris-II, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. His primary research interests are in global environmental history, modern imperialism, and modern European social and cultural history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: Ecology, Power, and Imperialism

  • PART I: A World of Goods: The Ecology of Colonial Extraction

  • 1: The Ecology of Cotton: Environment, Labour, and Empire

  • 2: Bittersweet Harvest: The Colonial Cocoa Boom and the Tropical Forest Frontier

  • 3: Colonialism, Rubber, and the Rainforest

  • 4: Subterranean Frontier: Tin Mining, Empire, and Environment in Southeast Asia

  • 5: Peripheral Centres: Copper Mining and Colonized Environments in Central Africa

  • 6: Oil, Empire, and Environment

  • PART II: Conservation, Improvement, and Environmental Management in the Colonies

  • 7: Tropical Nature in Trust: The Politics of Colonial Conservation

  • 8: Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies

  • 9: Cultivating the Colonies: Agriculture, Development, and Environment

  • PART III: Acceleration, Decline, and Aftermath

  • 10: Progress and Hubris: The Political Ecology of Late Colonial Development

  • 11: Beyond Colonialism: Tropical Environments and the Legacies of Empire

  • Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
ISBN-13: 9780198841883
ISBN-10: 0198841884
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ross, Corey
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 233 x 158 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Corey Ross
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2019
Gewicht: 0,748 kg
preigu-id: 115373525
Über den Autor
Corey Ross is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and the author of several books on the history of mass media and popular culture, heritage and ancestral pasts, and everyday life under state socialism, with a particular focus on Germany. Since arriving at Birmingham in 1998, he has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, a J. Walter Thompson Fellowship at Duke University, a guest professorship at the Université Paris-II, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. His primary research interests are in global environmental history, modern imperialism, and modern European social and cultural history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: Ecology, Power, and Imperialism

  • PART I: A World of Goods: The Ecology of Colonial Extraction

  • 1: The Ecology of Cotton: Environment, Labour, and Empire

  • 2: Bittersweet Harvest: The Colonial Cocoa Boom and the Tropical Forest Frontier

  • 3: Colonialism, Rubber, and the Rainforest

  • 4: Subterranean Frontier: Tin Mining, Empire, and Environment in Southeast Asia

  • 5: Peripheral Centres: Copper Mining and Colonized Environments in Central Africa

  • 6: Oil, Empire, and Environment

  • PART II: Conservation, Improvement, and Environmental Management in the Colonies

  • 7: Tropical Nature in Trust: The Politics of Colonial Conservation

  • 8: Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies

  • 9: Cultivating the Colonies: Agriculture, Development, and Environment

  • PART III: Acceleration, Decline, and Aftermath

  • 10: Progress and Hubris: The Political Ecology of Late Colonial Development

  • 11: Beyond Colonialism: Tropical Environments and the Legacies of Empire

  • Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
ISBN-13: 9780198841883
ISBN-10: 0198841884
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ross, Corey
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 233 x 158 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Corey Ross
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2019
Gewicht: 0,748 kg
preigu-id: 115373525
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