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Empire and Environmental Anxiety

Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. James Beattie

    1. University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • James Beattie
    Pages 1-3

  3. Origins of Environmental Anxieties

    • James Beattie
    Pages 4-38

  4. Imperial Health Anxieties

    • James Beattie
    Pages 39-71

  5. Colonial Aesthetic Anxieties

    • James Beattie
    Pages 72-99

  6. Scottish-trained Doctors Environmental Anxieties and Imperial Development, 1780s–1870s

    • James Beattie
    Pages 100-122

  7. German Science and Imperial Forestry, 1840s–1900s

    • James Beattie
    Pages 123-149

  8. South Asian and Australasian Forestry Anxieties and Exchanges, 1870s–1920s

    • James Beattie
    Pages 150-176

  9. Thwarting Imperial Agricultural Development: The Spectre of Drifting Sands, 1800s–1920s

    • James Beattie
    Pages 177-213

  10. Conclusion

    • James Beattie
    Pages 214-216

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-320
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About this book

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.

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“Beattie’s monograph greatly adds to our understanding of the origins and development of conservation policies in the British Empire. … It provides the most balanced and through assessment of how global and local forces shaped conservation policies in the nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. … This is an important book that will help to recast our understanding of conservation in the British Empire.” (Brett M. Bennett, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14 (1), 2012)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Waikato, New Zealand

    James Beattie

About the author

JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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