Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World - Softcover

Ross, Corey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198841884 ISBN 13: 9780198841883

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2019

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Ross is a fine writer who lays out his analyses in lucid narratives (Roger L. Albin, University of Michigan, Journal of World History)

brilliant (Adam Rome, Summer Reads 2018, Nature)

Ross's Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire is a genuine tour de force that will surely be a landmark book in both environmental history and imperial history. It takes a synthetic, multi-empire approach in the period since the 1860s, surveying the ecological contexts and consequences of colonial economies as well as growing imperial interest in resource conservation. Ross focuses on the tropical regions of Asia and Africa, taking the reader from the tin mines of Malaya to the cocoa plantations of West Africa with many stops in between. Ross's prose is agreeable and his arguments clear. His research in the specialist literature and published primary sources in English, French, Dutch, and German is thorough. Altogether a superb achievement and a great service to historians and other lovers of history. (J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University)

it is easy to envision Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire fitting comfortably into a range of teaching scenarios, from advanced undergraduate courses to graduate seminars on environmental history, world history, and empire ... It is a tremendous pleasure to review a masterwork. Its author should be heartily commended for producing such a wide-ranging, readable, and engaging book. I look forward to assigning Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire to many current and future students. (Edward D. Melillo, American Historical Review)

In this work, students will find an excellent bibliography of 1,106 entries, 1,544 footnotes, and superb reviews of the history of cotton, chocolate (cocoa), rubber, tin, copper, and oil. The book is highly readable with insights throughout for social scientists, conservation biologists, agronomists, and ecologists ... Recommended. (CHOICE)

Reseña del editor

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0198841884
• ISBN 13: 9780198841883
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 488