Eco-cultural networks and the British empire : new views on environmental history /: new views on environmental history. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O'Gorman.
• Editors: Beattie, James, 1977-; Melillo, Edward D; O'Gorman, Emily
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Foreword; Part 1 Regional Eco-Cultural Networks; Chapter 1 Introduction: Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire, 1837-1945; Imperial size and complexity; New perspectives on empire; Defining eco-cultural networks; Eco-cultural commodity frontiers; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 2 Climate and Empire; Climatic determinism; Domesticating climate and deforestation; The economy of climate; Climate and scientific knowledges; Climate, health and tropical medicine as agents of empire? Conclusion and future trendsNotes; Select bibliography; Chapter 3 The Chinese State and Agriculture in an Age of Global Empires, 1880-19491; Pre-nineteenth-century China and agriculture; Foreign empires and experts in the late Qing; New institutions of the late Qing and Republic; Agricultural institutions after the revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 4 Empire in a Cup: Imagining Colonial Geographies through British Tea Consumption1; The rise of a tea colony; Reorganizing Ceylon's landscapes of labour; Showcasing contented women in bucolic gardens. The malleable politics of teaImagining the British Empire; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 5 Africa, Europe and the Birds Between Them1; Hemispheric connections and local knowledge, 1500-1800; Avian geography and human geography, 1700s-1800s; Tracking birds from imperial Europe to colonial Africa; Europeans become authorities on birds in Africa; European humans and Palearctic avians in Africa, 1920s-1930s; African understandings of the avian link to Europe; Mapping networks and narratives on nature; Conclusion: Eco-cultural networks after Empire; Notes; Select bibliography. Part 2 Local Eco-Cultural NetworksChapter 6 Peradeniya and the Plantation Raj in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon; 'What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle':2 The cinnamon economy; The Royal Botanical Garden at Peradeniya; King coffee ; Queen tea; The world the planters made; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 7 Eco-Cultural Networks in Southern China and Colonial New Zealand: Cantonese Market Gardening and Environmental Exchange, 1860s-1910s1; Historiography; Cantonese migration in New Zealand; Cantonese landscapes; Market gardening in colonial New Zealand. Water technologySettler/Cantonese gardening exchanges; Chinese commercial networks and exchanges; Networks of belief: fengshui, gods, ancestors and ghosts; Cantonese attitudes to New Zealand's landscapes; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 8 Colonial Hunting Cultures; The diversity of imperial hunting; Game laws, class and hunting; Local peoples and imperial exchanges; Imperial commodity demand: Fashion and the bird trade; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Chapter 9 Game of Empires: Hunting in Treaty-Port China, 1870-19401; Expatriate hunting and 'ornamentalism' in China.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.709171/241; History -- Modern -- 19th Century; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Postcolonialism -- History -- 19th century; Human ecology -- Colonies -- Great Britain; Culture diffusion -- Colonies -- Great Britain; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441108678; 9781441125941; 1441125949
• Related ISBNs: 144110867X; 9781441109835; 1441109838
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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