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Title:

Eco-cultural networks and the British empire : new views on environmental history / edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O'Gorman.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Great Britain--History--History--19th century.
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Postcolonialism--History--19th century.
Human ecology--Colonies--Great Britain.
Culture diffusion--Colonies--Great Britain.
HISTORY--19th Century.--19th Century.

Other Authors:

Beattie, James, 1977- editor.
Melillo, Edward D., editor.
O'Gorman, Emily, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / John M. MacKenzie -- Introduction : Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire, 1837-1945 / James Beattie , Edward Melillo and Emily O'Gorman -- Climate and Empire / Georgina Endfield and Sam Randalls -- The Chinese State and Agriculture in an Age of Global Empires, 1880-1949 / Joseph Lawson -- Empire in a Cup : Imagining Colonial Geographies Through British Tea Consumption / Edward Melillo -- Africa, Europe and the Birds Between Them / Nancy Jacobs -- Peradeniya and the Plantation Raj in Noneteenth-Century Ceylon / Eugenia W. Herbert -- Eco-Cultural Networks in Southern China and Colonial New Zealand, 1860s-1910s / James Beattie -- Colonial Hunting Cultures / Kathryn M. Hunter -- Game of Empires: Hunting in Treaty-Port China / Robert Peckham -- Experiments, Environments, and Networks : Commercial Rice Cultivation in South-Eastern Australia, 1900-1945 / Emily O'Gorman -- Animals and Urban Environments : Managing Domestic Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg / Sean Kheraj.

Summary:

"19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire, and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions. This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empire' and 'imperialism'. Its chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, draw methodologically from recent studies in environmental history, post-colonial theory, and the history of science. Together, these perspectives provide a comprehensive historical understanding of how the British Empire reshaped the globe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book will be an important addition to the literature on British imperialism and global ecological change"-- Provided by publisher.
"19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna, and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire, and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions. This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empire' and 'imperialism'. Its chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, draw methodologically from recent studies in environmental history, post-colonial theory, and the history of science. Together, these perspectives provide a comprehensive historical understanding of how the British Empire reshaped the globe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will be an important addition to the literature on British imperialism and global ecological change"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1441109838
9781441109835

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868038037

LCCN:

2014021909

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)