TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beinart,William
AU  - Hughes,Lotte
TI  - Environment and empire
T2  - Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
SN  - 9780199260317
AV  - GF551 .B45 2007
U1  - 304.209171/241 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Plant ecology
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-382) and index; Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations   p. xiii
    1 Introduction   p. 1
    2 Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Caribbean Plantations   p. 22
    3 The Fur Trade in Canada   p. 40
    4 Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa   p. 58
    5 Imperial Travellers   p. 76
    6 Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia   p. 93
    7 Forests and Forestry in India   p. 111
    8 Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt   p. 130
    9 Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race   p. 148
    10 Plague and Urban Environments   p. 167
    11 Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa   p. 184
    12 Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation   p. 200
    13 Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature   p. 214
    14 Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia   p. 233
    15 Oil Extraction in the Middle East: The Kuwait Experience   p. 251
    16 Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management   p. 269
    17 National Parks and the Growth of Tourism   p. 289
    18 The Post-Imperial Urban Environment   p. 310
    19 Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge   p. 329
      Select Bibliography   p. 353
      Index   p. 383


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