Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler SocietiesTom Griffiths, Libby Robin Ecology and Empire forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 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 artifact of empire, drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science. |
Contents
Towards an Australian history | 1 |
Frontiers of fire Stephen J Pyne | 19 |
The nature of Australia Eric Rolls | 35 |
The fate of empire in low and highenergy ecosystems | 46 |
a science of empire? Libby Robin | 63 |
Ecology and environmentalism in the Anglo settler colonies | 76 |
Vets viruses and environmentalism at the Cape | 87 |
water management in Australia | 102 |
progressive | 154 |
Ecology imperialism and deforestation Michael Williams | 169 |
Global developments and Latin American environments | 185 |
environment markets and | 199 |
the historiography | 215 |
reflections on environmental history | 229 |
Select Bibliography | 237 |
Notes on Contributors | 245 |
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Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies Griffiths Tom Griffiths Limited preview - 2019 |
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies Tom Griffiths,Libby Robin No preview available - 2017 |
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