Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire - Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

List of contents

• Introduction: Ecology, Power, and Imperialism


• PART I: A World of Goods: The Ecology of Colonial Extraction


• 1: The Ecology of Cotton: Environment, Labour, and Empire


• 2: Bittersweet Harvest: The Colonial Cocoa Boom and the Tropical Forest Frontier


• 3: Colonialism, Rubber, and the Rainforest


• 4: Subterranean Frontier: Tin Mining, Empire, and Environment in Southeast Asia


• 5: Peripheral Centres: Copper Mining and Colonized Environments in Central Africa


• 6: Oil, Empire, and Environment


• PART II: Conservation, Improvement, and Environmental Management in the Colonies


• 7: Tropical Nature in Trust: The Politics of Colonial Conservation


• 8: Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies


• 9: Cultivating the Colonies: Agriculture, Development, and Environment


• PART III: Acceleration, Decline, and Aftermath


• 10: Progress and Hubris: The Political Ecology of Late Colonial Development


• 11: Beyond Colonialism: Tropical Environments and the Legacies of Empire


• Conclusion

About the author

Corey Ross is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and the author of several books on the history of mass media and popular culture, heritage and ancestral pasts, and everyday life under state socialism, with a particular focus on Germany. Since arriving at Birmingham in 1998, he has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, a J. Walter Thompson Fellowship at Duke University, a guest professorship at the Université Paris-II, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. His primary research interests are in global environmental history, modern imperialism, and modern European social and cultural history.

Summary

The first wide-ranging environmental history of late-nineteenth and twentieth century European imperialism, relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts they entailed and providing a historical background to the social, political, and environmental issues of the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Corey Ross, Corey (Professor of Modern History Ross, Ross Corey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2019
• EAN: 9780198841883
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884188-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historical Geography, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social impact of environmental issues, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, Historical Geography, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General