Author

Publication

1997 - Keele University Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

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  • Library of Congress Control Number98103979
  • Goodreads1217507
  • LibraryThing962295

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.

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