Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 January 2019
- ISBN 9780198841883
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 238x166x25 mm
- Weight 722 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
The first wide-ranging environmental history of late-nineteenth and twentieth century European imperialism, relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts they entailed and providing a historical background to the social, political, and environmental issues of the twenty-first century.
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.
An impressive tour de force of colonial environmental history ... A really impressive book on how ecological resources were claimed, used and spoiled by colonial agents, from individuals to states.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Ecology, Power, and Imperialism
PART I: A World of Goods: The Ecology of Colonial Extraction
The Ecology of Cotton: Environment, Labour, and Empire
Bittersweet Harvest: The Colonial Cocoa Boom and the Tropical Forest Frontier
Colonialism, Rubber, and the Rainforest
Subterranean Frontier: Tin Mining, Empire, and Environment in Southeast Asia
Peripheral Centres: Copper Mining and Colonized Environments in Central Africa
Oil, Empire, and Environment
PART II: Conservation, Improvement, and Environmental Management in the Colonies
Tropical Nature in Trust: The Politics of Colonial Conservation
Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies
Cultivating the Colonies: Agriculture, Development, and Environment
PART III: Acceleration, Decline, and Aftermath
Progress and Hubris: The Political Ecology of Late Colonial Development
Beyond Colonialism: Tropical Environments and the Legacies of Empire
Conclusion
