Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this fascinating new study examines a key global historical process of the last 500 years.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations


• 3: The Fur Trade in Canada


• 4: Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa


• 5: Imperial Travellers


• 6: Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia


• 7: Forests and Forestry in India


• 8: Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt


• 9: Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race


• 10: Plague and Urban Environments


• 11: Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa


• 12: Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation


• 13: Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature


• 14: Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia


• 15: Oil Extraction in the Middle East: the Kuwait Experience


• 16: Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management


• 17: National Parks and the Growth of Tourism


• 18: The Post-Imperial Urban Environment


• 19: Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge