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The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554584213
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature written by Karl S. Hele and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.

Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires written by John MacDonald MacKenzie and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally delivered as the Callander Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1995, this is a survey of the historiography of the environmental history of the British Empire, suggesting new modes of analysis and connections with the Scottish experience.

Empire's Nature

Author : Amy R. W. Meyers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783856X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Nature written by Amy R. W. Meyers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554584221
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Nature, Empire, and Nation

Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755443
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Nature, Empire, and Nation written by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.

Volney's Ruins

Author : Constantin-François Volney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Volney's Ruins written by Constantin-François Volney and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The empire of nature

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119587
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The empire of nature written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.

The ruins; or, A survey of the revolutions of empires. To which is added, The law of nature. Tr. from the French

Author : Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The ruins; or, A survey of the revolutions of empires. To which is added, The law of nature. Tr. from the French written by Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Properties of Empire

Author : Ian Saxine
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147983212X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Properties of Empire written by Ian Saxine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together in surprising ways to preserve Indigenous territory. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions for the frontier, Wabanaki Indians’ unity allowed them to forcefully project their own interpretations of often poorly remembered old land deeds and treaties. The result was the creation of a system of property in Maine that defied English law, and preserved Native power and territory. Eventually, ordinary colonists, dissident speculators, and grasping officials succeeded in undermining and finally destroying this arrangement, a process that took place in councils and courtrooms, in taverns and treaties, and on battlefields. Properties of Empire challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America, as well as the fixed nature of Indian “sales” of land, revealing the existence of a prolonged struggle to re-interpret seventeenth-century land transactions and treaties well into the eighteenth century. The ongoing struggle to construct a commonly agreed-upon culture of landownership shaped diplomacy, imperial administration, and matters of colonial law in powerful ways, and its legacy remains with us today.

American Baroque

Author : Molly A. Warsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book American Baroque written by Molly A. Warsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire. In the 1500s, licit and illicit trade in the jewel gave rise to global networks, connecting the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean to the pearl-producing regions of the Chesapeake and northern Europe. Pearls—a unique source of wealth because of their renewable, fungible, and portable nature—defied easy categorization. Their value was highly subjective and determined more by the individuals, free and enslaved, who produced, carried, traded, wore, and painted them than by imperial decrees and tax-related assessments. The irregular baroque pearl, often transformed by the imagination of a skilled artisan into a fantastical jewel, embodied this subjective appeal. Warsh blends environmental, social, and cultural history to construct microhistories of peoples' wide-ranging engagement with this deceptively simple jewel. Pearls facilitated imperial fantasy and personal ambition, adorned the wardrobes of monarchs and financed their wars, and played a crucial part in the survival strategies of diverse people of humble means. These stories, taken together, uncover early modern conceptions of wealth, from the hardscrabble shores of Caribbean islands to the lavish rooms of Mediterranean palaces.

The Bases of Empire

Author : Catherine Lutz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814752969
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Bases of Empire written by Catherine Lutz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pentagon has formulated and enacted a plan to realign, or reconfigure, its bases in keeping with new doctrines of pre-emption and intensified concern with strategic resource control, all with seemingly little concern for the surrounding geography and its inhabitants. The contributors in The Bases of Empire trace the political, environmental, and economic impact of these bases on their surrounding communities across the globe, including Latin America, Europe, and Asia, where opposition to the United States’ presence has been longstanding and widespread, and is growing rapidly. Through sharp analysis and critique, The Bases of Empire illuminates the vigorous campaigns to hold the United States accountable for the damage its bases cause in allied countries as well as in war zones, and offers ways to reorient security policies in other, more humane, and truly secure directions. Contributors: Julian Aguon, Kozue Akibayashi, Ayse Gul Altinay, Tom Engelhardt, Cynthia Enloe, Joseph Gerson, David Heller, Amy Holmes, Laura Jeffery, Kyle Kajihiro, Hans Lammerant, John Lindsay-Poland, Catherine Lutz, Katherine McCaffrey, Roland G. Simbulan, Suzuyo Takazato, and David Vine.

Imagined Empires

Author : Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789633861776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Empires written by Dimitris Stamatopoulos and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.

Visions of Empire

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521172615
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Empire written by David Philip Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499556
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt written by Alan Mikhail and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.

Europe as Empire

Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199231869
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Europe as Empire written by Jan Zielonka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement. Basing his findings on substantial empirical evidence, Zielonka presents a carefully argued account of the kind of political entity the European Union is becoming, with particular reference to recent enlargement.

Empire of Capital

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789609836
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Capital written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as Wood powerfully demonstrates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new unlimited militarism. By contrasting the new imperialism to historical forms such as the Roman and Spanish empire, and by tracing the development of capitalist imperialism back to the English domination of Ireland and on the British Empire in America and India, Wood shows how today's capitalist empire, a global economy administered by local states, has come tom spawn a new military doctrine of war without end, in purpose or time.

The Profits of Nature

Author : Peter B. Lavelle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550952
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Profits of Nature written by Peter B. Lavelle and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by an unprecedented conjunction of natural disasters, domestic rebellions, and foreign incursions. The imperial government responded to these calamities by introducing an array of new policies and institutions to bolster its power across its massive territories. In the process, Qing officials launched campaigns for natural resource development, seeking to take advantage of the unexploited lands, waters, and minerals of the empire’s vast hinterlands and borderlands. In this book, Peter B. Lavelle uses the life and career of Chinese statesman Zuo Zongtang (1812–1885) as a lens to explore the environmental history of this era. Although known for his pacification campaigns against rebel movements, Zuo was at the forefront of the nineteenth-century quest for natural resources. Influenced by his knowledge of nature, geography, and technology, he created government bureaus and oversaw state-funded projects to improve agriculture, sericulture, and other industries in territories across the empire. His work forged new patterns of colonial development in the Qing empire’s northwest borderlands, including Xinjiang, at a time when other empires were scrambling to secure access to resources around the globe. Weaving a narrative across the span of Zuo’s lifetime, The Profits of Nature offers a unique approach to understanding the dynamic relationship among social crises, colonialism, and the natural world during a critical juncture in Chinese history, between the high tide of imperial power in the eighteenth century and the challenges of modern state-building in the twentieth century.