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The British Empire and the natural world environmental encounters in South Asia

Deepak Kumar 1952- editor of compilation; Vinita Damodaran editor of compilation; Rohan D'Souza editor of compilation

New Delhi Oxford University Press 2011

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (363.70954 B862 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The British Empire and the natural world environmental encounters in South Asia
  • Autor: Deepak Kumar 1952- editor of compilation; Vinita Damodaran editor of compilation; Rohan D'Souza editor of compilation
  • Assuntos: Environmental policy -- India -- History -- Congresses; Human ecology -- India -- History -- Congresses; POLÍTICA AMBIENTAL -- ÍNDIA; ECOLOGIA HUMANA (HISTÓRIA) -- ÍNDIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references
  • Descrição: Pt. I. Environmental imaginations and empire. The wild Andamans : island imageries and colonial encounter / Aparna Vaidik -- Representing colonial authority : the visual environment of Walter Sherwill in 1851 / Daniel Rycroft -- pt. II. Making natural resources for the empire. Imperial design : the Royal Indian Engineering College and public works in colonial India / Christopher V. Hill -- Redeeming wood by destroying the forest : Shola, plantations, and colonial conservancy on the Nilgiris in the nineteenth century / Deborah Sutton -- Making garden, erasing jungle : the tea enterprise in colonial Assam / Jayeeta Sharma -- pt. III. Impacts and negotiations : the empire's ecological footprints. Taming 'liquid gold' and dam technology : a study of the Godavari Anicut / B. Eswara Rao -- Flood control for North Bihar : an environmental history from the 'ground-level' (1850-1954) / Praveen Singh -- pt. IV. Cultures reshape the empire. Colonial hydraulic projects in South India : environmental and cultural legacy / Peter L. Schmitthenner -- Collaboration and conflict : environmental legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700-1918) / Asoka Kumar Sen -- pt. V. The long ecological shadows of the empire. Forests at the edge of empire : the case of Nepal / D.G. Donovan -- Forest policy and ecological change : the Hyderabad State (1867-1948) / S. Abdul Thaha
    Contributed articles culled from a conference held at New Delhi in December 2002 and International Conference on the Forest and Environmental History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, held at University of Sussex during 19-21 March 2003
  • Editor: New Delhi Oxford University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2011
  • Formato: xiv, 280 pages illustrations, maps 23 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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