Empire and Environmental Anxiety :Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 - Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

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Empire and Environmental Anxiety

Empire and Environmental Anxiety :Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 - Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

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A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780230553200
ISBN10 0230553206
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Palgrave Macmillan
Format hardback
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“Beattie’s monograph greatly adds to our understanding of the origins and development of conservation policies in the British Empire. … It provides the most balanced and through assessment of how global and local forces shaped conservation policies in the nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. … This is an important book that will help to recast our understanding of conservation in the British Empire.” (Brett M. Bennett, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14 (1), 2012)

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Author's Bio

JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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