Imperial ecology : environmental order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 /

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From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anker, Peder
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Great Britain > History.
Natural resources > Great Britain > History.
Plant ecology > Great Britain > History.
Ressources naturelles > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Écologie végétale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > History.
Human ecology.
Natural resources.
Plant ecology.
Imperialisme.
Ecologie.
Great Britain.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From social psychology to imperial ecology
  • General Smuts's politics of holism and patronage of ecology
  • The Oxford School of imperial ecology
  • Holism and the ecosystem controversy
  • The politics of holism, ecology, and human rights
  • Planning a new human ecology
  • A world without history.

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