Imperialism And The Natural World

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie,John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0719029007

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Many experts recognize that juvenile literature acts as an excellent reflector of the dominant ideas of an age; the values and fantasies of adult authors are often dressed up in fictional garb for youthful consumption. This collection examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, from the mid-19th century until the 1950s, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. Western science, medicine, geographical ideas, and environmental assumptions were all vital to the creation of the imperial world system. The contributors to this volume illustrate new approaches to the study of conservation, botany, geology, economic geography, state scientific endeavor, and entomological and medical research in relation to the imperial rule of both Britain and France. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789204925

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The Nature of German Imperialism by Bernhard Gissibl Pdf

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107569874

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Ecological Imperialism by Alfred W. Crosby Pdf

A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.

Author : Cameron B. Strang
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640488

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Frontiers of Science by Cameron B. Strang Pdf

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Richard H. Grove
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521565138

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Green Imperialism by Richard H. Grove Pdf

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:319510024492618

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The Empire of Nature by John MacDonald MacKenzie Pdf

Imperialism was more than a set of economic, political, and military phenomena. It was a habit of mind, a dominant idea in the era of European world supremacy which had widespread intellectual, cultural, and technical expressions. Changing approaches to hunting constitute an important theme in human history. The pursuit and killing of animals has invariably developed ideological overtones and both literature and the pictorial arts have tended to stress the mythic, courtly, and martial rather than the purely practical aspects of the chase. Nineteenth century European hunters—aware of this rich tradition—turned hunting into a symbolic activity of global dominance, and thus of the culture of imperialism. Hunting was closely connected to economics, social functions, the study of natural history, and the technological development of firearms, while being subject to complex legislation. This volume examines hunting as one focus of the interaction of Europeans with Africans and Indians, while illuminating the nature of imperial power when exercised in the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Author : William Beinart,Lotte Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0199562512

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Environment and Empire by William Beinart,Lotte Hughes Pdf

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this study examines a key global historical process.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190864743

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Humans versus Nature by Daniel R. Headrick Pdf

Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071902420X

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Imperialism and Juvenile Literature by Jeffrey Richards Pdf

Many experts recognize that juvenile literature acts as an excellent reflector of the dominant ideas of an age; the values and fantasies of adult authors are often dressed up in fictional garb for youthful consumption. This collection examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, from the mid-19th century until the 1950s, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137427274

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The East India Company and the Natural World by V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester Pdf

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.

Author : V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349491098

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The East India Company and the Natural World by V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester Pdf

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.

Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1785331752

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The Nature of German Imperialism by Bernhard Gissibl Pdf

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015000434994

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