Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings in settlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India’s tragic story of India’s tribal communities.
Review
`this is a valuable collection of essays, particularly useful for the teachimg at university level of a new imperial history which refuses to be blind to the often dire environmental consequences of european colonialism.’
THES David Hardiman
`an interesting book’
Philip Stott, Journal of Historical Geography, 27, 2001
`An interesting book’
Philip Stott, Journal of Historical Geography, 27, 2001
`This is a valuable collection of essays, particularly useful for the teaching at university level of a new imperial history which refuses to be blind to the often dire environmental consequences of european colonialism.’
THES David Hardiman
About the Author
Richard H. Grove is at Australian National University, Canberra. Vinita Damodaran is at University of Sussex.
- Publisher : OUP India (September 14, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 1056 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0195653750
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195653755
- Item Weight : 2.16 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.47 x 2.05 x 8.58 inches
See related:
- Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940: Richard Grove
- Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 (Studies in Environment and History): Richard H. Grove
- Agents of Empire: Steps Toward an Ecology of Imperialism | T. C. Weiskel
- Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade
- “Rubbish and Racism: Problems of Boundary in an Ecosystem”
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