Green imperialism
Subtitle: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the orgins of environmentalism, 1600-1860
By: Richard H. Grove.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Studies in environment and history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: East India Company -- History.; Environmentalism -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-525) and index.
Table of contents: title: Edens, islands, and early empires; title: Indigenous knowledge and the significance of south-west India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature; title: The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies; title: Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763; title: Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime; title: Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800; title: The beginnings of a global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands, and the East India Company, 1768-1838; title: Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857; title: Conclusion: The colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism.