Empires Of Nature And The Nature Of Empires

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554584215

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The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature by Karl S. Hele Pdf

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015039882470

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Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires by John MacDonald MacKenzie Pdf

Originally delivered as the Callander Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1995, this is a survey of the historiography of the environmental history of the British Empire, suggesting new modes of analysis and connections with the Scottish experience.

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554584222

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The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature by Karl S. Hele Pdf

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719052270

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The Empire of Nature by John M. MacKenzie Pdf

In The Empire of Nature, John M. MacKenzie assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia.

Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0804755442

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Nature, Empire, and Nation by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Pdf

This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.

Author : Amy R. W. Meyers,Margaret Beck Pritchard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807838563

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Empire's Nature by Amy R. W. Meyers,Margaret Beck Pritchard Pdf

Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.

Author : Jeffers Lennox
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442614055

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Homelands and Empires by Jeffers Lennox Pdf

In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763.

Author : Constantin-François Volney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Ethics
ISBN : NYPL:33433082433446

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Volney's Ruins by Constantin-François Volney Pdf

Author : David Philip Miller,Peter Hanns Reill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521172616

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Visions of Empire by David Philip Miller,Peter Hanns Reill Pdf

Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554580040

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Lines Drawn Upon the Water by Karl S. Hele Pdf

Proceedings of a conference held at University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Feb. 11-12, 2005.

Author : Lori Khatchadourian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520290525

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Imperial Matter by Lori Khatchadourian Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things—from everyday objects to monumental buildings—profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526119595

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The Empire of Nature by John M. MacKenzie Pdf

This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into poachers and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and a symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. John MacKenzie also connects hunting and game conservation to concepts of masculinity, attitudes towards diet, and the development of western tourism.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499552

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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail Pdf

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.

Author : Roy M. MacLeod,Roy MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226500799

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Nature and Empire by Roy M. MacLeod,Roy MacLeod Pdf

Surveying Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this important new collection looks at roles of science, medicine, and technology during five centuries of colonialism. This thought-provoking history examines the many intersections of science, politics, and culture during colonialism, including the relation between racism and medical science, "exploration" and its potential for wealth, and the perceived differences between indigenous knowledge and European science. Sixteen chapters focus on such topics as intellectual property rights and biodiversity, "acclimatizing" the world, and science and development. Bringing together contributions from scholars of history and science from around the globe, Nature and Empire forges a new path for readers interested in science and society during the modern era.

Author : Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9633861772

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Imagined Empires by Dimitris Stamatopoulos Pdf

The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.