Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies

by Karen Oslund, Niels Brinmes, Niklas Thode Jensen

The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally "got their hands dirty" in the business of empire.

The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802825
• ISBN13: 9780896802827
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"