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Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
James Beattie
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Hardcover. A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; RNF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 518. Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. 336 pages, 9 maps, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; RNF; RNP. Dimension: 223 x 133 x 32. Weight: 518.
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230553200
SKU
V9780230553200
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About James Beattie
JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Reviews for Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
“Beattie’s monograph greatly adds to our understanding of the origins and development of conservation policies in the British Empire. … It provides the most balanced and through assessment of how global and local forces shaped conservation policies in the nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. … This is an important book that will help to recast our understanding of conservation in ... Read more