Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies / edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin.

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Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies / edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin.

Publication:

Description:

248 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1 Frontiers of fire by Stephen J. Pyne -- Ch. 2 The nature of Australia by Eric Rolls -- Ch. 3 The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems by Timothy F. Flannery -- Ch. 4 Ecology: a science of empire? by Libby Robin -- Ch. 5 Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies by Thomas R. Dunlap -- Ch. 6 Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape by William Beinart -- Ch. 7 Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia by J.M. Powell -- Ch. 8 Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience by Jane Carruthers -- Ch. 9 Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism by Richard Grove -- Ch. 10 Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers by Brigid Hains -- Ch. 11 Ecology, imperialism and deforestation by Michael Williams -- Ch. 12 Global developments and Latin American environments by Elinor G.K. Melville -- Ch. 13 The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 by Shaun Milton -- Ch. 14 Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment by John M. MacKenzie -- Ch. 15 Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history by David Lowenthal.

Summary:

"Ecology" and "Empire" forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized "peripheries", the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this to a range of lands of empire. It uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience. Ecology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artifact of empire, drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science."--Pub. desc.

ISBN:

1853311995 (paperback)
9781853311994 (paperback)

Subject:

Ecology Colonies Europe History.
Land settlement Colonies Europe History.
Ecology history
Emigration and Immigration history
Colonialism history
Colonisation intérieure Europe Colonies Histoire.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Koloniën.
Imperialisme.
Ecologische aspecten.
Sòl, Ús del Història.
Ecologia humana Història.
Home Influència sobre la natura.
Europe Colonies History.
Europe Colonies Histoire.
Europe

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Robin, Libby, 1956-
Griffiths, Tom, 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290356
Call No.: BIB 233352
Status: Available

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