General & Miscellaneous European History, European Imperialism - General & Miscellaneous, Imperialism, Colonialism & Imperialism - General & Miscellaneous

Ecology and Empire

Name: Ecology and Empire
Author: Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin
ISBN: 9780295976679

by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin

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'Ecology' and 'Empire' forged a historical partnership of great power - and one which, particularly in the last five hundred years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized 'peripheries', the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this, to a range of lands of empire. It uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience. Ecology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artefact of empire, thereby drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science. This book grew out of work undertaken at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

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A comparative environmental history using Australia as a case study. The 15 contributions also look at the US, South Africa, and Latin America in their exploration of environmental change as an unexplored aspect of colonialism. Specific topics include ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies, water management in Australia, progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers, and the Transvaal beef frontier as a locale for the discussion of markets and the ideology of development. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.