The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
| ISBN: | 9781349491094 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 297 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Damodaran, V. Lester, A. Winterbottom, A. |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.01.2015 |
| Schlagworte: | East India Company Empire Environment History India bibliography capital climate colonialism environment |
George Adamson, King's College London, UK Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore James Beattie, University of Waikato, New Zealand A.T. Grove, independent scholar, UK Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, National University of Singapore Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Henry Noltie, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK Rohan d'Souza, Shiv Nadar University, UK Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex, UK.