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This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative
and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness,
variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does
so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships
forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining
and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms
of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform
landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments
traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How
have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed
within past trading systems? What have been the successes and
failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production
in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe,
North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the
period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the
effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic
knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and
resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind
spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects
on frontiers.
This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative
and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness,
variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does
so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships
forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining
and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms
of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform
landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments
traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How
have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed
within past trading systems? What have been the successes and
failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production
in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe,
North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the
period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the
effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic
knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and
resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind
spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects
on frontiers.
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