Imperialism And The Natural World
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Author |
: John MacDonald MacKenzie |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719029007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719029004 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperialism and the Natural World by : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Many experts recognize that juvenile literature acts as an excellent reflector of the dominant ideas of an age; the values and fantasies of adult authors are often dressed up in fictional garb for youthful consumption. This collection examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, from the mid-19th century until the 1950s, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. Western science, medicine, geographical ideas, and environmental assumptions were all vital to the creation of the imperial world system. The contributors to this volume illustrate new approaches to the study of conservation, botany, geology, economic geography, state scientific endeavor, and entomological and medical research in relation to the imperial rule of both Britain and France. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Alfred W. Crosby |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107569874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107569877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecological Imperialism by : Alfred W. Crosby
A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.
Author |
: John M. MacKenzie |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526123671 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526123673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperialism and the natural world by : John M. MacKenzie
Imperial power, both formal and informal, and research in the natural sciences were closely dependent in the nineteenth century. This book examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. It discusses the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. Progress and consumerism were major constituents of the consensus that helped stabilise the late Victorian society, but consumerism only works if it can deliver the goods. From 1842 onwards, almost all major episodes of coordinated popular resistance to colonial rule in India were preceded by phases of vigorous resistance to colonial forest control. By the late 1840s, a limited number of professional positions were available for geologists in British imperial service, but imperial geology had a longer pedigree. Modern imperialism or 'municipal imperialism' offers a broader framework for understanding the origins, long duration and persistent support for overseas expansion which transcended the rise and fall of cabinets or international realignments in the 1800s. Although medical scientists began to discern and control the microbiological causes of tropical ills after the mid-nineteenth century, the claims for climatic causation did not undergo a corresponding decline. Arthur Pearson's Pearson's Magazine was patriotic, militaristic and devoted to royalty. The book explores how science emerged as an important feature of the development policies of the Colonial Office (CO) of the colonial empire.
Author |
: Bernhard Gissibl |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2016-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1785331752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781785331756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of German Imperialism by : Bernhard Gissibl
Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.
Author |
: John M. MacKenzie |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526119582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526119587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The empire of nature by : John M. MacKenzie
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
Author |
: Richard H. Grove |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1996-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521565138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521565134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Green Imperialism by : Richard H. Grove
The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
Author |
: Cameron B. Strang |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2018-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469640488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469640481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frontiers of Science by : Cameron B. Strang
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.
Author |
: Giordano Nanni |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2020-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526118400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526118408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The colonisation of time by : Giordano Nanni
The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two British settler-colonies (Victoria, Australia and the Cape Colony, South Africa) and its instrumental role in the exportation of Christianity, capitalism, and modernity, thus adding new depth to our understanding of imperial power and of the ways in which it was exercised and limited. All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time’s rise to a position of global dominance—from the clock to the seven-day week—is one of the most pervasive, enduring and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation in today’s world.
Author |
: Londa Schiebinger |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674043275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674043278 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plants and Empire by : Londa Schiebinger
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
Author |
: Daniel R. Headrick |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2012-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691154329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691154325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power Over Peoples by : Daniel R. Headrick
In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.