"This collection of essays from a pioneering scholar in the field of environmental history vividly demonstrates that concerns about climate change are far from

Examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world.

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth cen

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio