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Environment and Empire (Hardcover)
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Environment and Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global
historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human
societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial
expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and
Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now
understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of
global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw
materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil.
They established sugar plantations that transformed island
ecologies. Settlers introduced new methods of farming and displaced
indigenous peoples. Colonial cities, many of which became great
conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people
and nature. Consumer cultures, the internal combustion engine, and
pollution are now ubiquitous.
Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction
between people and other elements in the natural world, and this
book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of
empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped
empire and environmental change, Environment and Empire discusses
the way in which British consumers and manufacturers sucked in
resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed.
Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states
sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as
commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by
exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee
efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of
exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on
politicalreassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources.
In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating
ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a
local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate
nature.
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