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Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperial EcologyDDC classification:
  • 304.2/09041
LOC classification:
  • GF551
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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