Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies

Ecology and Empire forged a historical partnership of great power -- and one which, particularly in the last 500 years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. This book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized peripheries, the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this to a range of lands of empire. It uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience. Ecology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artifact of empire, drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science.

Author: Tom Griffiths
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 07/01/1997
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.16w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780295976679
ISBN10: 0295976675
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Ecology
- Nature | Ecology
- Science | History