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V. Damodaran, A. Winterbottom, A. Lester - East India Company and the Natural World, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

East India Company and the Natural World

Av V. Damodaran, A. Winterbottom, A. Lester

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

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This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
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George Adamson, King's College London, UK Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore James Beattie, University of Waikato, New Zealand A.T. Grove, independent scholar, UK Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, National University of Singapore Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Henry Noltie, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK Rohan d'Souza, Shiv Nadar University, UK Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex, UK.

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"These essays are uniformly strong, and this book is a timely and valuable collection. It is one more indication of the multidisciplinary possibilities entailed by environmental history. ... This compendium provides us with a more nuanced view of empire, one that greatly expands our understanding of imperial histories." (Christopher V. Hill, Environmental History, Vol. 21, April, 2016) "This is a well-rounded and important collection that brings together scholars active in different sub-disciplines. ... The East India Company and the Natural world is an important volume, useful for specialists and for the classroom... ." (Jayeeta Sharma, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 51 (1), January, 2016)

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