Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History: Empire, Forests, and Colonial Environments in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and New Zealand (2020)
Damodaran, Vinita (Editor)
D'Souza, Rohan (Editor)
Primus Books
Physical Details: 618
Language: English
Contemporary anxieties about global warming and climate change impacts have unsettled the ways in which we think about environmental politics and human history. Intense discussions have already begun over whether we need to reconsider what we understand by the term 'environmental change' and if humans have truly become a 'geo-physical' force. Put differently, how should we recast our understanding of the planet's varied environmental pasts in order to make sense of the Anthropocene present? This collection of 19 essays on forestry and environmental change in the erstwhile colonies of the British Empire builds on Richard Grove's quest for achieving a 'global synthesis' as efforts towards writing environmental histories on a planetary scale. The Commonwealth of Nations as a single environmental bloc for study, enquiry and historical scrutiny, explores connected environmental histories, compares dissimilar ecological regions and debates ideologies for environmental management.
...MoreReview Dhirendra Datt Dangwal (2023) Review of "Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History: Empire, Forests, and Colonial Environments in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and New Zealand". American Historical Review (pp. 532-534).
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