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Author Rajan, S. Ravi.

Title Modernizing nature : forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950 / S. Ravi Rajan.

Imprint Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  634.92 R161M    Check Shelf
Description xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-265) and index.
Contents 1.1 Science and Colonial Environmental History 3 -- 1.2 The Case of British Colonial Forestry 6 -- 1.2.1 Historical Overview 6 -- 1.2.2 Historiographical Overview 14 -- 1.3 The Framework of the Book 17 -- 1.3.1 The Outline of the Chapters 19 -- 2 A Contract with Nature 21 -- 2.1 The Climatic Benefits of Forests 21 -- 2.2 The Continental Forestry Tradition 35 -- 2.2.1 Stages in the Development of German Forestry: A Brief Overview 37 -- 2.2.2 German Forestry as an Ideology of Resource Use 41 -- 2.2.3 German Forestry and Society 43 -- 2.2.4 French Forestry 44 -- 2.2.5 Modern French Forestry and People 48 -- 2.3 Resonant Themes 50 -- 2.3.1 Modernizing Nature 50 -- 2.3.2 Emancipatory Appropriation and Technocracy 52 -- 3 The Empire of Nature 55 -- 3.1 The Campaign for Forest Conservancy in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 61 -- 3.1.1 Forests and Climate 64 -- 3.1.2 The Ethos of Colonial Science and the Economic Argument for Conservation 68 -- 3.1.3 The Campaign for Forest Conservancy in the Cape 74 -- 3.2 The Onset of Continental Forestry in the British Empire 79 -- 3.2.1 Indian Foresters and Forest Management 80 -- 3.2.2 Indian Forestry as an Attitude to Nature 90 -- 3.2.3 Indian Forestry and Society 92 -- 3.2.4 Foresters and Other Colonial Officials 96 -- 3.2.5 Empire Forestry, 1850-1900: The Wider Scenario 100 -- 4 The Empire Strikes Back 108 -- 4.2 The Contexts of the Empire Forestry Conferences 113 -- 4.2.1 Changing Attitudes to Science Policy 114 -- 4.2.2 The First World War and Forestry 121 -- 4.2.3 The Origins of the Empire Forestry Conferences 125 -- 4.2.4 Science, Colonial Development, and Conferences, 1928-1952 129 -- 4.3 Foresters and Colonial Forest Policy 138 -- 4.3.1 Forest Policy at the Empire Forestry Conferences 142 -- 5 The Imperial Environmentalist 159 -- 5.1 Paradigm Articulation 160 -- 5.1.1 The 'Classical' Problems 160 -- 5.1.2 Organization and Institution Building for Research 165 -- 5.1.3 Resonant Themes 170 -- 5.2 Agro-forestry Dilemmas 171 -- 5.2.1 Empire Foresters and the Debate on Shifting Cultivation 171 -- 5.2.2 Foresters and the Politics of Soil Erosion 179 -- 5.2.3 Wider Issues 190 -- 5.2.4 Resonant Themes 193 -- 6 The Contested Legacy 197 -- 6.1 The Nature of Colonial Forestry: A Revisionist Account 197 -- 6.2 Postscript: Widening the Argument 199 -- Appendix 1 Syllabus and Coursework at Nancy 207 -- Appendix 2 Brief Profiles of Some Colonial Scientist-Conservationists in India in the Period 1800-1850 210 -- Appendix 3 A List of Participants at the Empire Forestry Conferences 215.
Summary "Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad 'colonial' sciences had ideological and interventionist traditions distinct from each other and from the colonial bureaucracy and that these tensions better explain environmental politics and policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Forest management -- History -- 19th century.
Forest management -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
British colonies. (OCoLC)fst01910374
Forest management. (OCoLC)fst00932231
Forstpolitik. (DE-588)4123218-5
Forstwirtschaft. (DE-588)4017966-7
Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
Imperialismustheorie. (DE-588)4161403-3
Kolonialismus. (DE-588)4073624-6
Kolonie. (DE-588)4031790-0
Nachhaltigkeit. (DE-588)4326464-5
Umweltschutz. (DE-588)4061644-7
Großbritannien. (DE-588)4022153-2
Forstwirtschaft.
Umweltschutz.
Nachhaltigkeit.
Geschichte.
Kolonie.
Imperialismustheorie.
Kolonialismus.
Forstpolitik.
Großbritannien.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1950
Geschichte 1800-1950.
1800-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0199277966 (alk. paper)
9780199277964 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780199277964
99813015355
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