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Green Imperialism
Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 1860
Taschenbuch von Richard H. Grove
Sprache: Englisch

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The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Edens, islands and early empires; 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature; 3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies; 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700¿1763; 5. Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime; 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760¿1800; 7. The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768¿1838; 8. Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760¿1857; Conclusion: the colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism; Select bibliography, Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 560
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780521565134
ISBN-10: 0521565138
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Grove, Richard H.
Redaktion: Worster, Donald
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Richard H. Grove
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2003
Gewicht: 0,898 kg
preigu-id: 101140253
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Edens, islands and early empires; 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature; 3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies; 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700¿1763; 5. Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime; 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760¿1800; 7. The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768¿1838; 8. Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760¿1857; Conclusion: the colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism; Select bibliography, Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 560
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780521565134
ISBN-10: 0521565138
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Grove, Richard H.
Redaktion: Worster, Donald
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Richard H. Grove
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2003
Gewicht: 0,898 kg
preigu-id: 101140253
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