Title: Ecology and 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.
Subjects: Life Sciences, Ecology, Wilderness, NATURE, Electronic books, SCIENCE, Environmental Science (see also Chemistry, Environmental), Ecosystems & Habitats, Colonies, Land settlement, History, Applied ecology, History of ideas, intellectual history, Human ecology, Imperialism, Pollution & threats to the environment, Life Sciences - Ecology, Environmental engineering, Colonization, Europeans, Colonisation intérieure, Histoire, Koloniën, Imperialisme, Ecologische aspecten, Emigration and Immigration, Colonialism