Empire and Environmental Anxiety

Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920

AvJ. Beattie

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 30 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Antal sidor:320
Upplaga:11001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349363018

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JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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'...a rich and complex book..' -Journal of the Australian Garden History Society

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Dedication List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on the Author Introduction Origins of Environmental Anxieties Imperial Health Anxieties Colonial Aesthetic Anxieties Scottish-trained Doctors: Environmental Anxieties and Imperial Development, 1780s-1870s German Science and Imperial Forestry, 1840s-1900s South Asian and Australasian Forestry: Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s-1920s Thwarting Imperial Agricultural Development: The Spectre of Drifting Sands, 1800s-1920s Conclusion Bibliography Index