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  • - An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
    av John Ryan Fischer
    576,-

    Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

  • - Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
    av Rebecca J. H. Woods
    666 - 1 640,-

    Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire.

  • - Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
    av Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    786,-

    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the ""March to the East"". Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.

  • - The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
    av Megan Raby
    610 - 1 640,-

  • - The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
    av Venus Bivar
    1 640,-

  • - An Ecological History, 1897-1975
    av Michitake Aso
    666 - 1 640,-

    In this ground breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbours, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways.

  • - How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
    av Kirsten A. Greer
    656 - 1 330,-

    During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world.

  • - The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
    av Jason W. Smith
    350,-

    Tells the story of the rise of the US Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography.

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