02598nam a22002657a 4500 20230507183812.0 230507b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 97805215651 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. : ZBD0052 : 01/05/2023 333.720 GRO Grove, Richard H. Green imperialism : colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860. / Richard H Grove. , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995. xiv, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 4801 Edens, islands, and early empires Indigenous knowledge and the significance of south-west India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763 Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800 The beginnings of a global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands, and the East India Company, 1768-1838 Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857 Conclusion: The colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, especially in the Dutch, French and English maritime empires. The prime importance of the oceanic island 'Eden' as a vehicle for new conceptions of nature is emphasized, and the significance of colonial island environments in stimulating conservationist notions is underlined, revealing how, for the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised." Ecologia History East India Company Environmentalism History Green movement History Richard H Grove BOOK 60229 60229 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2023-05-07 Zafaa Books 4801.00 0 333.720 GRO 29300 2023-05-07 00:00:00 2023-05-07 BOOK