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Beschreibung
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 of the last 500 years.
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 of the last 500 years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Introduction

  • 2: Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations

  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199562510
ISBN-10: 0199562512
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beinart, William
Hughes, Lotte
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: William Beinart (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2009
Gewicht: 0,62 kg
Artikel-ID: 108624047

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