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
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