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028 _a: Zafaa Books & Distributors
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_d: 01/05/2023
082 _a333.720 GRO
100 _aGrove, Richard H.
245 _aGreen imperialism
_b : colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860.
_c/ Richard H Grove.
260 _a, Cambridge
_b: Cambridge University Press
_c, 1995.
300 _a xiv, 540 pages
_b: illustrations, maps
_c ; 24 cm.
365 _b4801
505 _a 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
520 _aThis 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."
650 _aEcologia
650 _aHistory
650 _aEast India Company
650 _aEnvironmentalism History
650 _aGreen movement History
700 _aRichard H Grove
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