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Ecology and empire : environmental history of settler societies /
"Ecology" and "Empire" forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized &quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Keele University Press,
[1997]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1 Frontiers of fire by Stephen J. Pyne
- Ch. 2 The nature of Australia by Eric Rolls
- Ch. 3 The fate of empire in low- and high-energy ecosystems by Timothy F. Flannery
- Ch. 4 Ecology: a science of empire? by Libby Robin
- Ch. 5 Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies by Thomas R. Dunlap
- Ch. 6 Vets, viruses and environmentalism at the Cape by William Beinart
- Ch. 7 Enterprise and dependency: water management in Australia by J.M. Powell
- Ch. 8 Nationhood and national parks: comparative examples from the post-imperial experience by Jane Carruthers
- Ch. 9 Scotland in South Africa: John Croumbie Brown and the roots of settler environmentalism by Richard Grove
- Ch. 10 Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers by Brigid Hains
- Ch. 11 Ecology, imperialism and deforestation by Michael Williams
- Ch. 12 Global developments and Latin American environments by Elinor G.K. Melville
- Ch. 13 The Transvaal beef frontier: environment, markets and the ideology of development, 1902-1942 by Shaun Milton
- Ch. 14 Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment by John M. MacKenzie
- Ch. 15 Empires and ecologies: reflections on environmental history by David Lowenthal.