A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.

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“Beattie’s monograph greatly adds to our understanding of the origins and development of conservation policies in the British Empire. … It provides the most balanced and through assessment of how global and local forces shaped conservation policies in the nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. … This is an important book that will help to recast our understanding of conservation in the British Empire.” (Brett M. Bennett, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14 (1), 2012)

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University of Waikato, New Zealand

James Beattie

About the author

JAMES BEATTIE has published nearly forty articles and chapters on Asian and Australasian environmental history, garden history, medical history, history of science and Asian art collecting, and sits on the editorial panels of several international journals, including Environment and History and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is Senior Lecturer, History Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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Book Title: Empire and Environmental Anxiety
Book Subtitle: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920
Authors: James Beattie
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309067
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55320-0Published: 25 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36301-8Published: 25 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30906-7Published: 25 May 2011
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 320
Topics: Environmental Politics, Asian History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, Australasian History, Environmental Management

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