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Oil Palm
A Global History
Häftad, 2021
398 kr
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Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried …
Captivity's Collections
Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's …
Herds Shot Round the World
Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
Inbunden, 2017
1226 kr
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As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. …
Herds Shot Round the World
Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
Häftad, 2017
428 kr
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As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. …
American Tropics
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Av Megan Raby
Inbunden, 2017
1226 kr
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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists …
American Tropics
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Av Megan Raby
Häftad, 2017
399 kr
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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists …
Cattle Colonialism
An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
Häftad, 2017
370 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, …
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam
An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a …
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam
An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Häftad, 2018
500 kr
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Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a …
Organic Resistance
The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
Av Venus Bivar
Inbunden, 2018
1226 kr
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays …
Organic Resistance
The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
Av Venus Bivar
Häftad, 2018
399 kr
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays …
End of a Global Pox
America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
Häftad, 2018
370 kr
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By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate the disease, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort …
Red Coats and Wild Birds
How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Inbunden, 2020
562 kr
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During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British to project power and to secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in …
Red Coats and Wild Birds
How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British to project power and to secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in …
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Victoria to the World
Av Pete Minard
Inbunden, 2019
1153 kr
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Species acclimatization-the organized introduction of organisms to a new region-is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization …
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World
Av Pete Minard
Häftad, 2019
413 kr
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Species acclimatization-the organized introduction of organisms to a new region-is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization …
Environments of Empire
Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
Av Ulrike Kirchberger, Brett M. Bennett
Inbunden, 2020
1233 kr
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The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to …
Environments of Empire
Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
Av Ulrike Kirchberger, Brett M. Bennett
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to …
Landscape of Migration
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Inbunden, 2020
1226 kr
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In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian …
Landscape of Migration
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Häftad, 2020
474 kr
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In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian …
To Master the Boundless Sea
The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
Häftad, 2020
370 kr
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As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in …
Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Inbunden, 2020
1226 kr
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The labor of turtle hunters and the shaping of Caribbean history.Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the …
Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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The labor of turtle hunters and the shaping of Caribbean history.Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the …
Defending the Arctic Refuge
A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Inbunden, 2021
400 kr
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Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for …
Oil Palm
A Global History
Inbunden, 2021
1153 kr
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Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried …
Making the Green Revolution
Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Inbunden, 2023
1198 kr
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In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions …
Making the Green Revolution
Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions …
Creatures of Fashion
Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
Av John Soluri
Inbunden, 2024
1226 kr
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region's …
Creatures of Fashion
Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
Av John Soluri
Häftad, 2024
326 kr
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region's …
Captivity's Collections
Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Inbunden, 2023
1226 kr
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Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's …
