Ecology and empire
Subtitle: environmental history of settler societies
By: edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin.
Contributors: Griffiths, Tom, 1957-; Robin, Libby, 1956-
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Ecology -- Europe -- Colonies -- History; Land settlement -- Europe -- Colonies -- History; Europe -- Colonies -- History
Other titles: Ecology & empire
Description: "Ecology" and "Empire" forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized "peripheries", the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this to a range of lands of empire. It uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience. Ecology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artifact of empire, drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.