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Modernizing nature : forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950 /

Professor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalisation and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial framework of environmental management. He disagress with historigraphical and social scientific approaches arguing that it had cognitive, ideological and interventiona...

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Main Author: Rajan, S. Ravi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Forest management > History > 19th century.
Forest management > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Forêts > Gestion > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Forêts > Gestion > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
British colonies
Forest management
1800-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Professor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalisation and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial framework of environmental management. He disagress with historigraphical and social scientific approaches arguing that it had cognitive, ideological and interventionalist traditions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 286 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-265) and index.
ISBN:1429421878
9781429421874
9780199277964
0199277966
9786610758173
6610758174
9780191515460
0191515469