Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and CaribbeanPlantations
3: The Fur Trade in Canada
4: Hunting, Wildlife, and Imperialism in Southern Africa
5: Imperial Travellers
6: Sheep, Pastures, and Demography in Australia
7: Forests and Forestry in India
8: Water, Irrigation, and Agrarian Society in India and Egypt
9: Colonial Cities: Environment, Space, and Race
10: Plague and Urban Environments
11: Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in East and Central Africa
12: Imperial Scientists, Ecology, and Conservation
13: Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature
14: Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia
15: Oil Extraction in the Middle East: the Kuwait Experience
16: Resistance to Colonial Conservation and Resource Management
17: National Parks and the Growth of Tourism
18: The Post-Imperial Urban Environment
19: Reassertion of Indigenous Environmental Rights and Knowledge

Reviews

This is welcome and it will be hoped that it will influence many other historians of empire. John M MacKenzie, The Overseas Pensioner