TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anker,Peder
TI  - Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945
SN  - 9780674020221
AV  - GF551 
U1  - 304.2/09041 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Human ecology-Great Britain-History
KW  - Natural resources-Great Britain-History
KW  - Plant ecology-Great Britain-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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