Empire and environmental anxiety health, science, art and conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Beattie, James, 1977-
• 其他作者：
  • Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• 其他題名：
  • Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
• 出版： Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
• 主題： Imperialism--History--19th century. , Environmental policy--South Asia--History--19th century. , Environmental policy--Australasia--History--19th century. , Public health administration--South Asia--History--19th century. , Public health administration--Australasia--History--19th century. , Science and state--South Asia--History--19th century. , Science and state--Australasia--History--19th century. , Imperialism--Australasia--History--19th century. , Imperialism--South Asia--History--19th century. , HISTORY--Australia & New Zealand. , HISTORY--Asia--India & South Asia. , HISTORY--Modern--19th Century. , HISTORY--Modern--20th Century. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230309067 (electronic bk.) 、 0230309062 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-305) and index. Introduction -- Origins of Environmental Anxieties -- Imperial Health Anxieties -- Colonial Aesthetic Anxieties -- Scottish-trained Doctors : Environmental Anxieties and Imperial Development, 1780s-1870s -- German Science and Imperial Forestry, 1840s-1900s -- South Asian and Australasian Forestry -- Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s-1920s -- Thwarting Imperial Agricultural Development : The Spectre of Drifting Sands, 1800s-1920s -- Conclusion.
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• 摘要註: A fascinating new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, revealing the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Demonstrating that systematic deforestation accompanied anxieties about human-induced climate change, soil erosion, and a looming timber famine, the book illuminates colonial fears about the power of environments - and environmental change - to affect health. It looks at concerns at the ugliness of urban environments and attempts at improving their appearance, but it also argues that some of the conservation policies and bureaucracies that resulted from expressions of environmental anxiety represented a form of imperial control designed to generate revenue and to enable the more efficient exploitation of resources. Environmental anxiety tied together parts of South Asia and Australasia. Policies, people, plants and ideas were exchanged between these areas, but adapted in light of colonies' particular political, economic and environmental circumstances and problems.
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