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Online-Ressource (341 p)
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9781441109835
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19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions. This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empir
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The sporting prospects of Hong Kong
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441108678
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441109835
Additional Edition:
Print version Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire : New Views on Environmental History
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English
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