In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate nature.

Environment and Empire

William Beinart and Lotte Hughes

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations3. The Fur Trade in Canada4. Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa5. Imperial Travellers6. Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia7. Forests and Forestry in India8. Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt9. Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race10. Plague and Urban Environments11. Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa12. Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation13. Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature14. Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia15. Oil Extraction in the Middle East:the Kuwait Experience16. Resistance to
Colonial Conservation and Resource Management17. National Parks and the Growth of Tourism18. The Post-Imperial Urban Environment19. Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge

Environment and Empire

William Beinart and Lotte Hughes

Reviews and Awards

"If you are a British imperial historian, or someone who works in an area of the former British Empire, you need to read this book. Few books are as clearly written, have as broad a scope, or are as successful at imparting the views of past scholars while also articulating the author's own vision of history. More importantly, perhaps, not only will you learn from this book, you will also enjoy it."--Brett Bennett, British Scholar

"A reasonably comprensive, highly informative, laudably interdisciplinary, and well-written account of the empire's interactions with different environments and of its