The Nature of Empire
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-76017-5 (ISBN)
This book offers readers a global environmental history of modern imperialism that actively engages Western-based and non-Western based empires. As this study shows, imperialism ultimately transformed human perceptions of nature and the environment in significant, lasting, and conflicting ways. It both inspired modern conservationist practices and fueled opposition to environmental policies in colonial contexts. It also spurred the development of climate science, which helped reveal the environmental toll of imperial exploitation and drive efforts to fight it. The environmental and political legacies of empire remain evident today through unmitigated anthropogenic climate change and the increasing incidence of extreme weather, which tends to disproportionately impact marginalized peoples.
This book stands as a useful and accessible resource for students, scholars, and all those seeking to better understand environmental history, imperial legacies, and the roots of contemporary climate challenges.
Andrea Duffy, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University. Her research examines human-environmental relations around the world in the modern era, with an emphasis on imperialism and colonial contexts, cross-cultural connections, and the role of climate change. She is the author of Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (2019), winner of the Weyerhaeuser Book Award.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Maps
Introduction
Part I: Environmental Exploitation
Chapter 1: Conquest and Conflict
Chapter 2: Forests and Fields
Chapter 3: Industrialization and Resources
Part II: Environmental Challenges
Chapter 4: Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Chapter 5: Health and Disease
Chapter 6: Extreme Environments
Part III: Environmental Perceptions
Chapter 7: The Environmental Civilizing Mission
Chapter 8: Conservation and Preservation
Chapter 9: Science and the Anthropocene
Conclusion
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Themes in Environmental History |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-76017-7 / 0367760177 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-76017-5 / 9780367760175 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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