Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945.
Anker, Peder.
Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Social Psychology to Imperial Ecology -- 2. General Smuts's Politics of Holism and Patronage of Ecology -- 3. The Oxford School of Imperial Ecology -- 4. Holism and the Ecosystem Controversy -- 5. The Politics of Holism, Ecology, and Human Rights -- 6. Planning a New Human Ecology -- Conclusion: A World without History -- An Ecology of Ecologists -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
9780674020221
Human ecology-Great Britain-History.
Natural resources-Great Britain-History.
Plant ecology-Great Britain-History.
Electronic books.
GF551
304.2/09041
Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Social Psychology to Imperial Ecology -- 2. General Smuts's Politics of Holism and Patronage of Ecology -- 3. The Oxford School of Imperial Ecology -- 4. Holism and the Ecosystem Controversy -- 5. The Politics of Holism, Ecology, and Human Rights -- 6. Planning a New Human Ecology -- Conclusion: A World without History -- An Ecology of Ecologists -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
9780674020221
Human ecology-Great Britain-History.
Natural resources-Great Britain-History.
Plant ecology-Great Britain-History.
Electronic books.
GF551
304.2/09041