Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945

by Peder Anker

From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.

Patrons in the northern and southern extremes of the Empire, he argues, urgently needed tools for understanding environmental history as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005953
• ISBN13: 9780674005952
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"