Environment and empire / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Main Author: Beinart, William
Other Authors: Hughes, Lotte
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Great Britain.
Natural resources > Great Britain.
Plant ecology > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Colonies > Environmental conditions.
Physical Description:395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Environmental aspects of the Atlantic slave trade and Caribbean plantation
  • The fur trade in Canada
  • Hunting, wildlife, and imperialism in southern Africa
  • Imperial travellers
  • Sheep, pastures, and demography in Australia
  • Forests and forestry in India
  • Water, irrigation, and agrarian society in India and Egypt
  • Colonial cities: environment, space, and race
  • Plague and urban environments
  • Tsetse and trypanosomiasis in east and central Africa
  • Imperial scientists, ecology, and conservation
  • Empire and the visual representation of nature
  • Rubber and the environment in Malaysia
  • Oil extraction in the middle east: the Kuwait experience
  • Resistance to colonial conservation and resource management
  • National parks and the growth of tourism
  • The post-imperial urban environment
  • Reassertion of indigenous environmental rights and knowledge.