Empire and environmental anxiety
Subtitle: health, science, art and conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920
By: James Beattie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780230553200
Subjects: Public health administration; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Science and state; Imperialism; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Environmental policy; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Origins of Environmental Anxieties; title: Imperial Health Anxieties; title: Colonial Aesthetic Anxieties; title: Scottish-trained Doctors : Environmental Anxieties and Imperial Development, 1780s-1870s; title: German Science and Imperial Forestry, 1840s-1900s; title: South Asian and Australasian Forestry; title: Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s-1920s; title: Thwarting Imperial Agricultural Development : The Spectre of Drifting Sands, 1800s-1920s; title: Conclusion.