The East India Company and the Natural World
Vinita Damodaran (Ed.)
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Description for The East India Company and the Natural World
Hardback. This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857. Editor(s): Damodaran, Vinita; Winterbottom, Anna; Lester, Alan. Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
297
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137427267
SKU
V9781137427267
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Ref
99-15
About Vinita Damodaran (Ed.)
George Adamson, King's College London, UK Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore James Beattie, University of Waikato, New Zealand A.T. Grove, independent scholar, UK Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, National University of Singapore Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Henry Noltie, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK Rohan d'Souza, Shiv Nadar University, UK Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex, UK.
Reviews for The East India Company and the Natural World
These essays present useful, interesting, and informative data gleaned from what is evidently exemplary research. ... As valuable contributions to the continuum of interdisciplinary history, they deserve long-term appreciation. (Arthur Macgregor, Archives of Natural History, Vol. 44 (1), March, 2017) These essays are uniformly strong, and this book is a timely and valuable collection. It ... Read more