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The East India Company and the natural world

Damodaran, Vinita, editor, Winterbottom, Anna, 1979- editor, Lester, Alan, editor

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\"The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed to and recorded environmental change during the first era of globalization. From the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, to peninsula India and outposts in South and Southeast Asia, the Company presence profoundly altered the environment by introducing plants and animals, felling forests, and redirecting rivers. The threats of famine and disease encouraged experiments with agriculture and the recording of the virtues of medicinal plants. The EIC records of the weather, the soils, and the flora provide modern climate scientists with invaluable data. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - use the lens of the Company to illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: East India Company History Sources. / East India Company Archives. / East India Company. / Imperialism Environmental aspects Sources. / Environmentalism History Sources. / Human ecology Colonies Great Britain Sources. / Natural history Sources. / Natural History. / Colonialism history. / Natural Resources. / Environment. / History, Modern 1601-. / 15.75 history of Asia. / 42.97 ecology: other. / HISTORY Asia India & South Asia. / HISTORY Modern 17th Century. / HISTORY Modern 18th Century. / HISTORY Modern 19th Century. / SCIENCE Environmental Science. / British colonies. / Commerce. / Environmentalism. / Natural history. / Humanèokologie / Kolonie / Umwelt / Umweltschaden / Umweltverèanderung / Great Britain Commerce History Sources. / Great Britain Colonies History Sources. / United Kingdom. / Great Britain. / Zuid-Azièe. / Zuidoost-Azièe.
• ISBN: 9781137427267, 1137427264, 9781349491094, 1349491098

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