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Environment and empire

Print Book, English, 2010, ©2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, ©2007
395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9780199562510, 9780199260317, 0199562512, 0199260311
1016248742
Environmental aspects of the Atlantic slave trade and Caribbean plantation
The fur trade in Canada
Hunting, wildlife, and imperialism in southern Africa
Imperial travellers
Sheep, pastures, and demography in Australia
Forests and forestry in India
Water, irrigation, and agrarian society in India and Egypt
Colonial cities: environment, space, and race
Plague and urban environments
Tsetse and trypanosomiasis in east and central Africa
Imperial scientists, ecology, and conservation
Empire and the visual representation of nature
Rubber and the environment in Malaysia
Oil extraction in the middle east: the Kuwait experience
Resistance to colonial conservation and resource management
National parks and the growth of tourism
The post-imperial urban environment
Reassertion of indigenous environmental rights and knowledge