Book ID: CBB001550346

Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800--1920 (2011)

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Beattie, James (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xv + 320 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

A fascinating new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, revealing the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Demonstrating that systematic deforestation accompanied anxieties about human-induced climate change, soil erosion, and a looming timber famine, the book illuminates colonial fears about the power of environments -- and environmental change -- to affect health. It looks at concerns at the ugliness of urban environments and attempts at improving their appearance, but it also argues that some of the conservation policies and bureaucracies that resulted from expressions of environmental anxiety represented a form of imperial control designed to generate revenue and to enable the more efficient exploitation of resources. Environmental anxiety tied together parts of South Asia and Australasia. Policies, people, plants and ideas were exchanged between these areas, but adapted in light of colonies' particular political, economic and environmental circumstances and problems.

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Authors & Contributors
Beattie, James
Samuel Grinsell
Brescius, Moritz von
Núñez, Paula Gabriela
Vergara, Germán
Besky, Sarah
Concepts
Conservation of natural resources
Imperialism
Environmentalism
Forests and forestry
Colonialism
Environmental history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
South Asia
Great Britain
United States
New Zealand
India
Nile River
Institutions
East India Company (English)
United States. National Park Service
Nature Conservancy, Great Britain
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