By Christina Folke Ax,Niels Brimnes,Niklas Thode Jensen,Karen Oslund
ISBN-10: 0896802825
ISBN-13: 9780896802827
The essays accumulated in Cultivating the Colonies display how the connection among colonial strength and nature unearths the character of strength. each one essay explores how colonial governments translated rules concerning the administration of unique nature and overseas humans into perform, and the way they actually “got their arms soiled” within the company of empire.
The 11 essays contain reviews of animal husbandry within the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous drugs in India. they're international in scope, starting from the Russian North to Mozambique, analyzing the results of colonialism on nature, together with its influence on animals, fisheries, farmlands, clinical practices, or even the diets of indigenous people.
Cultivating the Colonies establishes past all attainable doubt the significance of our surroundings as a locus for learning the facility of the colonial state.
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