Cultivating the Colonies : Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Getting Our Hands Dirty -- Part 1: Perceiving the Colonial Environment -- Chapter One: The Prospective Colonist and Strange Environments: Advice on Health and Prosperity -- Chapter Two: Carved Out of Nature: Identity and Environment in German Colonial Africa -- Chapter Three: The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science in the Spanish and American Philippines -- Chapter Four: Aerial Photography and Colonial Discourse on the Agricultural Crisis in Late-Colonial Indochina, 1930ā€“1945 -- Part 2: Managing the Colonial Environment -- Chapter Five: Wetland Colonies: Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal -- Chapter Six: Colonization of the Russian North: A Frozen Frontier -- Chapter Seven: Recasting Disease and Its Environment: Indigenous Medical Practitioners, the Plague, and Politics in Colonial India, 1898ā€“1910 -- Chapter Eight: Changing Times, Changing Palates: The Dietary Impacts of Basuto Adaptation to New Rulers, Crops, and Markets, 1830sā€“1966 -- Part 3: The Legacy of Colonialism -- Chapter Nine: State Rationality, Development, and the Making of State Territory: From Colonial Extraction to Postcolonial Conservation in Southern Mozambique -- Chapter Ten: Ecological Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute -- Chapter Eleven: Colonial Experts, Developmental and Environmental Doctrines, and the Legacies of Late British Colonialism -- List of Contributors -- Index.

The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power.

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