The East India Company and the Natural World

The East India Company and the Natural World
ISBN-10
1137427272
ISBN-13
9781137427274
Category
Science
Pages
297
Language
English
Published
2014-12-01
Publisher
Springer
Authors
V. Damodaran, A. Winterbottom, A. Lester

Description

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.

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