Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire : New Views on Environmental History.

Intro -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Imperial size and complexity -- New perspectives on empire -- Defining eco-cultural networks -- Eco-cultural commodity frontiers -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Climatic determinism -- Domesticating climate and deforestation -- The economy of climate -- Climate and scientific knowledges -- Climate, health and tropical medicine as agents of empire? -- Conclusion and future trends -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Pre-nineteenth-century China and agriculture -- Foreign empires and experts in the late Qing -- New institutions of the late Qing and Republic -- Agricultural institutions after the revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- 4. Empire in a Cup: Imagining Colonial Geographies through British Tea Consumption -- The rise of a tea colony -- Reorganizing Ceylon's landscapes of labour -- Showcasing contented women in bucolic gardens -- The malleable politics of tea -- Imagining the British Empire -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Hemispheric connections and local knowledge, 1500 - 1800 -- Avian geography and human geography, 1700s - 1800s -- Tracking birds from imperial Europe to colonial Africa -- Europeans become authorities on birds in Africa -- European humans and Palearctic avians in Africa, 1920s - 1930s -- African understandings of the avian link to Europe -- Mapping networks and narratives on nature -- Conclusion: Eco-cultural networks after Empire -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- ' What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ': The cinnamon economy -- The Royal Botanical Garden at Peradeniya -- King coffee -- Queen tea -- The world the planters made -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Historiography -- Cantonese migration in New Zealand -- Cantonese landscapes -- Market gardening in colonial New Zealand.

Water technology -- Settler/Cantonese gardening exchanges -- Chinese commercial networks and exchanges -- Networks of belief: fengshui, gods, ancestors and ghosts -- Cantonese attitudes to New Zealand's landscapes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- The diversity of imperial hunting -- Game laws, class and hunting -- Local peoples and imperial exchanges -- Imperial commodity demand: Fashion and the bird trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Expatriate hunting and 'ornamentalism' in China -- The sporting prospects of Hong Kong -- Shooting in Treaty-Port China -- Oppositional knowledge -- Conclusion: Bagging nature -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area -- Rice experiments: Takasuka and experiment farms -- Californian exchanges -- Creating a market -- The Second World War -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Early Winnipeg's domestic animal population -- Nineteenth-century animal by-laws -- Scavenging and public health -- Public markets -- Pounds and trespass -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography.

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