Author: GROVE, Richard H.
Title: Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940.
Description: The White Horse Press, 1997. Paperback. Good condition. Includes papers on The Evolution of the Colonial Discourse on Deforestation and Climate Change 1500-1940; Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660-1854; Scottish Missionaries, Evangelical Discourses and the Origins of Conservation Thinking in Southern Africa, 1820-1900; The East India Company, the Australians and the El Nino: Colonial Scientists and Ideas about Global Climatic Change and Teleconnections between 1770 and 1930; Chiefs, Boundaries and Sacred Woodlands: Early Nationalism and the Defeat of Colonial Conservationism in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, 1870-1916 etc. 237pp. ISBN-10 1874267197.

Keywords: environmental environment environmentalism political politics history 17th seventeenth 18th eighteenth 19th nineteenth century colony colonial sociology