Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Hardback: 34 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Series Number 34) - Hardcover

Barton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521814170 ISBN 13: 9780521814171

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

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Críticas:

'The central thesis of this challenging book is that imperialism and environmentalism have a shared past that many scholars, especially those on the political left, wish to deny ... I have much sympathy with this brave ... deconstruction of the sources of practical environmentalism.' Philip Stott, History Today

'This book is well researched, easy to read, extremely good value and, for landscape historians interested in the interaction of human agency and environmental history it provides a succession of interesting case studies grounded in the landscape of the New Orleans river front.' Landscape History

Biografía del autor:

Gregory A. Barton is Professor of British, Colonial and Environmental history at the University of Redlands, California.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521814170
• ISBN 13: 9780521814171
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208