Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 16… - SLUB Dresden

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Titel: Green imperialism : colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600 - 1860

Enthält: Edens, islands, and early empires -- Indigenous knowledge and the significance of south-west India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature -- The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies -- Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763 -- Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime -- Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800 -- The beginnings of a global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands, and the East India Company, 1768-1838 -- 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.
Literaturverz. S. 487 - 525

Beteiligte: Grove, Richard H. [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995

Ausgabe: 1. publ.

Umfang: XIV, 540 S; Ill., Kt; 24 cm

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 0521403855

RVK-Notation: NN 1730 : Einzelbeiträge
AR 12600 : Geschichte

Schlagwörter: Kolonialismus > Umweltbewusstsein > Umweltschutz > Geschichte 1660-1860
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