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  • - America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
    von Bob H. Reinhardt
    41,00 €

  • - An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
    von John Ryan Fischer
    42,00 €

    Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

  • - Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
    von Rebecca J. H. Woods
    46,00 - 117,00 €

    Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire.

  • - Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
    von Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    54,00 - 118,00 €

    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the ""March to the East"". Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.

  • - Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
     
    115,00 €

    Advances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.

  • - The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
    von Megan Raby
    45,00 - 117,00 €

  • - The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
    von Venus Bivar
    115,00 €

  • - An Ecological History, 1897-1975
    von Michitake Aso
    56,00 - 118,00 €

    In this ground breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbours, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways.

  • - How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
    von Kirsten A. Greer
    44,00 - 118,00 €

    During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world.

  • - Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
     
    44,00 €

    Advances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.

  • - The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
    von Jason W. Smith
    42,00 €

    Tells the story of the rise of the US Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography.

  • - Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
    von Sharika D. Crawford
    40,00 - 114,00 €

    Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea.

  • - A Global History
    von Jonathan E. Robins
    114,00 €

    Oil palms are ubiquitous - grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet.

  • - Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World
    von Pete Minard
    46,00 - 114,00 €

    Colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement.

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