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Author:

Beinart, William.

Title:

Environment and empire / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

ix, 395 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--Great Britain.
Natural resources--Great Britain.
Plant ecology--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Environmental conditions.--Environmental conditions.

Other Authors:

Hughes, Lotte.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index.

Contents:

Environmental aspects of the Atlantic slave trade and Caribbean plantation -- The fur trade in Canada -- Hunting, wildlife, and imperialism in southern Africa -- Imperial travellers -- Sheep, pastures, and demography in Australia -- Forests and forestry in India -- Water, irrigation, and agrarian society in India and Egypt -- Colonial cities: environment, space, and race -- Plague and urban environments -- Tsetse and trypanosomiasis in east and central Africa -- Imperial scientists, ecology, and conservation -- Empire and the visual representation of nature -- Rubber and the environment in Malaysia -- Oil extraction in the middle east: the Kuwait experience -- Resistance to colonial conservation and resource management -- National parks and the growth of tourism -- The post-imperial urban environment -- Reassertion of indigenous environmental rights and knowledge.

Series:

Oxford history of the British Empire companion series

ISBN:

9780199260317 (alk. paper)
0199260311 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007020652

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)