Nature and the Orient
Title | Nature and the Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Grove |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1036 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Asia, South |
ISBN | 9780195653755 |
Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings in settlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India's tragic story of India's tribal communities.
Nature and the Orient
Title | Nature and the Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Grove |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 1302 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to thepresent. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings insettlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India's tragic story of India's tribalcommunities.
Orientalism
Title | Orientalism PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Said |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2014-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804153868 |
A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
Nature and Art in the Old World
Title | Nature and Art in the Old World PDF eBook |
Author | John Stebbins Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN |
The United States in the Orient
Title | The United States in the Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Arthur Conant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Industries |
ISBN |
The economic basis of imperialism -- Russia as a world power -- The struggle for commercial empire -- Can new openings be found for capital? -- The new economic problems -- The United States as a world power -- Nature of the economic and political problem -- The United States as a world power -- Their advantages in the competition for commercial empire.
Nature in the Global South
Title | Nature in the Global South PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Greenough |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2003-08-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0822385007 |
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this pathbreaking collection of essays describes projects of exploitation, administration, science, and community protest. With contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history, and environmental and policy studies, Nature in the Global South features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the social studies of nature. While some of the essays look at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, officials, monks, and farmers, others analyze specific campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats. In case studies centered in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South and Southeast Asia as a whole, contributors examine how the tropics, the jungle, tribes, and peasants are understood and transformed; how shifts in colonial ideas about the landscape led to extremely deleterious changes in rural well-being; and how uneasy environmental compromises are forged in the present among rural, urban, and global allies. Contributors: Warwick Anderson Amita Baviskar Peter Brosius Susan Darlington Michael R. Dove Ann Grodzins Gold Paul Greenough Roger Jeffery Nancy Peluso K. Sivaramakrishnan Nandini Sundar Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Charles Zerner
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
Title | The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze PDF eBook |
Author | David John Arnold |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015-07-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295800941 |
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.