Green imperialism : colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860 / Richard H. Grove.
Author(s): Grove, Richard H.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Green imperialism : colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860
- Author(s)
- Grove, Richard H.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Collation
- xiv, 540 p. : ill., maps
24 cm. - Series Title
- Studies in environment and history.
- ISBN
- 9780521565134
- Dewey Class
- 363.7
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Edens, islands and early empires -- 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature -- 3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies -- 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763 -- 5. Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime -- 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800 -- 7. The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768-1838 -- 8. Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857 -- Conclusion: the colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- East India Company -- History.
Environmentalism -- History. - BRN
- 6592
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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363.7 GRO
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