The British Empire and the Natural World

Kumar, Deepak [u.a.]:
The British Empire and the Natural World : Environmental Encounters in South Asia / Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D'Souza. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - ca. 344 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-806970-6
£ 40,00
DDC: 333.720954; 954.03
-- Angekündigt für Februar 2011 --

Beschreibung
This volume provides multi-layered analysis of the environmental impacts under the colonial rule. Presenting detailed case studies from across the Indian subcontinent, it discusses different aspects of Empire-environment encounters like imagination of environment; politics of natural resource management; irrigation and flood control projects; cultural negotiations; and forest and ecological changes. The essays explore the nature of global environmental transformations in the nineteenth century, complex and varied inter-colonial exchanges, techniques and technologies, and the institutionalization of various environmental imaginings. The volume documents the shifts in recent environmental history of the subcontinent. Examining key debates on the subject, it also underlines the need to revisit the role of British Empire as an apt conceptual template for the writing of global environmental history. [Verlagsinformation]

Herausgeber
DEEPAK KUMAR is Professor at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
VINITA DAMODARAN is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex.
ROHAN D'SOUZA is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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