Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860Cambridge University Press, 29 במרץ 1996 - 540 עמודים Green Imperialism is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocratic, and medical thinking in the history of environmentalist ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, and demonstrates both the importance of the oceanic island "Eden" as a vehicle for new conceptions of nature and the significance of colonial island environments in stimulating conservationist notions. |
תוכן
Edens islands and early empires | 16 |
Indigenous knowledge and the significance of SouthWest India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature | 73 |
The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth century environmental crisis in the colonies | 95 |
Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism 17001763 | 153 |
Protecting the climate of paradise Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien régime | 168 |
Climate conservation and Carib resistance The British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean 17601800 | 264 |
The beginnings of global environmentalism Professional science oceanic islands and the East India Company 17681838 | 309 |
Diagnosing crisis The East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India 17601857 | 380 |
The colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism | 474 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
agriculture Alexander Alexander Beatson Anderson Balfour Banks Barbados Beatson became Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Bombay botanical garden botanist British Burchell Calcutta Cape Caribs Cleghorn climate colonial colonists Commerson connection consequences conservation conservationism conservationist context cultivation deforestation Dutch early East India Company ecological economic eighteenth century emergence empirical English environment environmental Europe European extinction Ezhava famine forest protection forest reservation Forster France French Gibson global governor Hortus Hortus malabaricus Humboldt Ibid ideas impact important indigenous influence interest knowledge land landscape later letter London Madras Malabar Mauritius Nathaniel Wallich natural history naturalists observations paradise particularly physiocratic Pierre Poivre Pierre Sonnerat plantation Poivre's political Port Louis quoted rainfall Reede role Rousseau Roxburgh scientific scientists significance Soame Jenyns social Society of Arts soil erosion species St Helena St Vincent Stephen Hales surgeons teak theories timber Tobago tree planting voyage Wallich William Roxburgh wood
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 497 - Remarks on the influence of climate, situation, nature of country, population, nature of food, and way of life, on the disposition and temper, manners and behaviour, intellects, laws and customs, form of government and religion of mankind.