Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India

by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Book Overview

Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745560
• ISBN13: 9780804745567
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.1"