Bibliograph

Environments of empire, networks and agents of ecological change, edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett

Type

Label

Environments of empire, networks and agents of ecological change, edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Environments of empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1113282359

Responsibility statement

edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett

Series statement

Flows, migrations, and exchanges

Sub title

networks and agents of ecological change

Summary

"This collection explores the networks that shaped ecological change within and between European and Middle Eastern empires during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is divided into three parts. The first focuses on the role of nation-building in trans-imperial ecological transfers; the second focuses on approaches from the history of science, looking at the global transfer, circulation, and diffusion of ideas about the environment; and the third employs methods from animal studies, challenging anthropocentric views of environmental history"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The transformation of an ecological policy : acclimatization of Cuban tobacco varieties and public scandalization in the French empire, c. 1860-1880 / Alexander van Wickeren -- Securing resources for the industries of Wilhelmine Germany : tropical agriculture and phytopathology in Cameroon and Togo, 1884-1914 / Samuel Eleazar Wendt -- French mandate Syria and Lebanon : land, ecological interventions and the "modern" state / Idir Ouahes -- Science, to understand the abundance of plants and trees : the first Ottoman Natural History Museum and Herbarium, 1836-1848 / Semih Celik -- Inventing colonial agronomy : Buitenzorg and the transition from the Western to the Eastern model of colonial agriculture, 1880s-1930s / Florian Wagner -- Discovery and patriarchy : professionalization of botany and the distancing of women and "others" / Carey McCormack -- Animal-skinners : a transcolonial network and the formation of West African zoology / Stephanie Zehnle -- Adapting to change in Australian estuaries : oysters in the techno-fix cycles of colonial capitalism / Jodi Frawley -- Brumbies (Equus ferus caballus) as colonizers of the Esperance Mallee-Recherche bioregion in Western Australia / Nicole Chalmer

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