Colonialism, Development, and the Environment
Title | Colonialism, Development, and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Pallavi V. Das |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2016-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137494581 |
This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest conservation efforts took on a cyclical, almost symbiotic relationship.
Colonialism, Development, and the Environment
Title | Colonialism, Development, and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Pallavi V. Das |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781137494566 |
This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest conservation efforts took on a cyclical, almost symbiotic relationship.
Cultivating the Colonies
Title | Cultivating the Colonies PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Folke Ax |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2014-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0896804798 |
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire. The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India. They are global in scope, ranging from the Russian North to Mozambique, examining the consequences of colonialismon nature, including its impact on animals, fisheries, farmlands, medical practices, and even the diets of indigenouspeople. Cultivating the Colonies establishes beyond all possible doubt the importance of the environment as a locus for studyingthe power of the colonial state.
Colonial Urban Development
Title | Colonial Urban Development PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony D. King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1135681155 |
The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution of social and political power within it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in 'colonial cities' of Asia and Africa where the environmental assumptions of a dominant, industrializing Western power were introduced to largely 'pre-industrial' societies. Anthony King draws his material primarily from these areas, and includes a case study of the development of colonial Delhi from the early nineteenth century to 1947. Yet, as the author explains, the problems of how cultural social and political factors influence the nature of environments and how these in turn affect social processes and behaviour, are of global significance. This book was first published in 1976.
Ecology, Climate and Empire
Title | Ecology, Climate and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Grove |
Publisher | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
"This collection of essays from a pioneering scholar in the field of environmental history vividly demonstrates that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. Grove traces the origins of present-day environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation and climate change in the writings of early colonial administrators, doctors and missionaries. He traces what is known and what can be inferred concerning historic El Nino events centuries before the devastating 1997/98 instance. In an important and wide-ranging concluding essay he analyses the general significance of 'marginal' land and its ecology in the history of popular resistance movements."--Amazon.com.
Green Imperialism
Title | Green Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Grove |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1996-03-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521565134 |
The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
Cultivating the Colonies
Title | Cultivating the Colonies PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Folke Ax |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0896802825 |
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire. The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India. They are global in scope, ranging from the Russian North to Mozambique, examining the consequences of colonialism on nature, including its impact on animals, fisheries, farmlands, medical practices, and even the diets of indigenous people. Cultivating the Colonies establishes beyond all possible doubt the importance of the environment as a locus for studying the power of the colonial state.