The East India Company and the natural world
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Publication
2015 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
74,250 words, Guess
Page Count
297 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781137427267
- ISBN-101137427264
- Library of Congress Control Number2014029176
- OCLC Control Number882184812
- Better World Books9781137427267
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL31035259M
Classifications
- DDC508.54
- LCCDS465 .E175 2015
- LCCG143D1-DX301D1-DX301
Description
"The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed to and recorded environmental change during the first era of globalization. From the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, to peninsula India and outposts in South and Southeast Asia, the Company presence profoundly altered the environment by introducing plants and animals, felling forests, and redirecting rivers. The threats of famine and disease encouraged experiments with agriculture and the recording of the virtues of medicinal plants. The EIC records of the weather, the soils, and the flora provide modern climate scientists with invaluable data. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - use the lens of the Company to illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857. "--
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Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in world environmental history
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