Green Imperialism
Subtitle: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 16001860 (Studies in Environment and History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780521565134
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; ASIA; Asia - General; Development - Sustainable Development; Life Sciences - Ecology; Business & Economics-Development - Sustainable Development; Environmentalism--History; History / Renaissance; History-Asia - General; Science / Ecology
First sentence: It is very probable that Homo sapiens, even in the first millennium of his and her distinctive emergence as a separate species tens of thousands of years ago, was capable of promoting very rapid and extensive transformations in the natural environment.