Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta The Making of Calcutta

Table des matières

Introduction. Almanac of a tidal basin; Part I. Environmental Consolidations: 1. Power and silt; 2. Drying a delta; Part II. Legal Maneuvers: 3. Notarizing possessions; 4. Commerce in land; Part III. Un-real Estate: 5. Speculative properties; Conclusion: disappearing coastlines.

A propos de l'auteur

Debjani Bhattacharyya is Assistant Professor of History at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She was a Junior Fellow of the American Institute of India Studies, and a former Research Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden.

Résumé

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history, which spans from 1760 to 1920, demonstrates how colonial property law and hydraulic engineering transformed the ecology of the Bengal delta to drain Calcutta.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Debjani (Drexel University Bhattacharyya, Debjani Bhattacharyya
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 30.06.2019
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Economie privée; Sciences naturelles, médecine, it, technique > Sciences naturelles en général
• EAN: 9781108443340
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44334-0
• Nombre de pages: 257
• Thème: Studies in Environment and History
• Catégories: NATURE / General, India, Colonialism & imperialism, Environmental Management, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Historical Geology, Historical geology and palaeogeology