Environments of empire networks and agents of ecological change
The transformation of an ecological policy : acclimatization of Cuban tobacco varieties and public scandalization in the French empire, c. 1860-1880 / Alexander van Wickeren -- Securing resources for the industries of Wilhelmine Germany : tropical agriculture and phytopathology in Cameroon and Togo,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Flows, migrations, and exchanges
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Human ecology
> History
> Global environmental change
> Imperialism
> Environmental sciences
> Europe
> Colonies
> Turkey
> Konferenzschrift
> Deutschland
> Frankreich
> Großbritannien
> Osmanisches Reich
> Niederlande
> Wirtschaftsimperialismus
> Pflanzen
> Tiere
> Umweltveränderung
> Geschichte 1860-1990
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The transformation of an ecological policy : acclimatization of Cuban tobacco varieties and public scandalization in the French empire, c. 1860-1880 / Alexander van Wickeren -- Securing resources for the industries of Wilhelmine Germany : tropical agriculture and phytopathology in Cameroon and Togo, 1884-1914 / Samuel Eleazar Wendt -- French mandate Syria and Lebanon : land, ecological interventions and the "modern" state / Idir Ouahes -- Science, to understand the abundance of plants and trees : the first Ottoman Natural History Museum and Herbarium, 1836-1848 / Semih Celik -- Inventing colonial agronomy : Buitenzorg and the transition from the Western to the Eastern model of colonial agriculture, 1880s-1930s / Florian Wagner -- Discovery and patriarchy : professionalization of botany and the distancing of women and "others" / Carey McCormack -- Animal-skinners : a transcolonial network and the formation of West African zoology / Stephanie Zehnle -- Adapting to change in Australian estuaries : oysters in the techno-fix cycles of colonial capitalism / Jodi Frawley -- Brumbies (Equus ferus caballus) as colonizers of the Esperance Mallee-Recherche bioregion in Western Australia / Nicole Chalmer. "This collection explores the networks that shaped ecological change within and between European and Middle Eastern empires during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is divided into three parts. The first focuses on the role of nation-building in trans-imperial ecological transfers; the second focuses on approaches from the history of science, looking at the global transfer, circulation, and diffusion of ideas about the environment; and the third employs methods from animal studies, challenging anthropocentric views of environmental history"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 266 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781469655925 978-1-4696-5592-5 9781469655932 978-1-4696-5593-2 |