The East India Company and the Natural World [electronic resource] /
Damodaran, V.editor.
Winterbottom, A.editor.
Lester, A.editor.
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: New Imperial and Environmental Histories of the Indian Ocean; 1 Botanical Explorations and the East India Company: Revisiting 'Plant Colonialism'; 2 Medicine and Botany in the Making of Madras, 1680-1720; 3 Robert Wight and his European Botanical Collaborators; 4 The East India Company, Famine and Ecological Conditions in Eighteenth-Century Bengal; 5 Colonial Private Diaries and their Potential for Reconstructing Historical Climate in Bombay, 1799-1828
6 Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals: The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime7 The Rafflesia in the Natural and Imperial Imagination of the East India Company in Southeast Asia; 8 'A proper set of views': The British East India Company and the Eighteenth-Century Visualization of South-East Asia; 9 Unlikely Partners: Malay-Indonesian Medicine and European Plant Science; 10 Plants, Animals and Environmental Transformation: Indian-New Zealand Biological and Landscape Connections, 1830s-1890s; 11 St Helena as a Microcosm of the East India Company World; Afterword
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This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
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East India Company
Environmental geography.
History.
Imperialism.
Human geography.
Environment.
Environmental Geography.
History of Science.
History, general.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Human Geography.
Environment, general.