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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism By Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism by Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)


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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Summary

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism by Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)

What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Reviews

'The central thesis of this challenging book is that imperialism and environmentalism have a shared past that many scholars, especially those on the political left, wish to deny ... I have much sympathy with this brave ... deconstruction of the sources of practical environmentalism.' Philip Stott, History Today
'This book is well researched, easy to read, extremely good value and, for landscape historians interested in the interaction of human agency and environmental history it provides a succession of interesting case studies grounded in the landscape of the New Orleans river front.' Landscape History

About Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)

Gregory A. Barton is Professor of British, Colonial and Environmental history at the University of Redlands, California.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The great interference; 3. Empire forestry and British India; 4. Environmental innovation in British India; 5. Empire forestry and the colonies; 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism; 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521038898
9780521038898
0521038898
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism by Gregory Allen Barton (University of Redlands, California)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2007-08-06
212
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