The East India Company and the natural world. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan Lester.
• Editors: Damodaran, Vinita; Winterbottom, Anna, 1979-; Lester, Alan
• Contents: Preface / Anna Winterbottom -- Introduction : new imperial and environmental histories of the Indian Ocean / Alan Lester -- Botanical explorations and the East India Company : revisiting plant colonialism / Deepak Kumar -- Botanical and medical networks of Madras, 1680-1720 / Anna Winterbottom -- Robert Wright and his European collaborators / Henry Noltie -- The East India Company, famine and ecological conditions in eighteenth-century Bengal / Vinita Damodaran -- The climate of Bombay from 1799-1828 from four colonial weather diaries / George Adamson -- Mischievous rivers and evil shoals : the English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime / Rohan D'Souza -- The Rafflesia in the natural and imperial imagination of the East India Company in Southeast Asia / Timothy P. Barnard -- 'A proper set of views' : the British East India Company and the visualization of South-East Asia in the late eighteenth century / Geoff Quilley -- Malay-Indonesian materia medica and trans-cultural encounters / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells -- ''Units ... 'of our mighty Indian empire' : New Zealand/Indian biological and landscape exchanges, 1830s-1890s" / James Beattie -- St Helena as a microcosm of the East India Company World / Dick Grove -- Afterword / Vinita Damodaran.
• Publisher Details: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 508.54; Geography; Imperialism -- Environmental aspects -- Sources; Environmentalism -- History -- Sources; Human ecology -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- Sources; Natural history -- Sources; HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia; HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century; HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century; HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; NATURE -- Essays; NATURE -- Reference; TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism; British colonies; Commerce; Environmentalism; Natural history; Science -- History; History -- General; Social Science -- Human Geography; History of science; History; Colonialism & imperialism; Human geography; The environment; History; Imperialism; Human Geography; Environmental sciences; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Physical geography & topography; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- Sources; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- Sources; Great Britain; Electronic books; Archives; History; Sources; History -- Sources; Archives
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137427274; 1137427272; 1322577048; 9781322577043; 1349491098; 9781349491094
• Related ISBNs: 9781349491094; 9781137427267
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-284) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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