The empire of nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The empire of nature write by John M. MacKenzie. This book was released on 2017-03-01. The empire of nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
The Empire of Nature
The Empire of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Empire of Nature write by John M. MacKenzie. This book was released on 1997. The Empire of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Empire of Nature, John M. MacKenzie assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia.
Nature, Empire, and Nation
Nature, Empire, and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, Empire, and Nation write by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. This book was released on 2006. Nature, Empire, and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
Empire's Nature
Empire's Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire's Nature write by Amy R. W. Meyers. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Empire's Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt write by Alan Mikhail. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.
