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020			_a9781137427267 (hardback : alkaline paper)
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245	0	4	_aThe East India Company and the natural world / _cedited by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan Lester.
250			_a1st ed:
260			_aEngland _bPalgrave _c2015
300			_axix, 297 pages :
490	0		_aPalgrave studies in world environmental history
505	0		_aPreface / Anna Winterbottom -- Introduction : new imperial and environmental histories of the Indian Ocean / Alan Lester -- Botanical explorations and the East India Company : revisiting "plant colonialism" / Deepak Kumar -- Medicine and botany in the making of Madras, 1680-1720 / Anna Winterbottom -- Robert Wright and his European botanical collaborators / H.J. Noltie -- The East India Company, famine and ecological conditions in eighteenth-century Bengal / Vinita Damodaran -- Colonial private diaries and their potential for reconstructing historical climate in Bombay, 1799-1828 / George Adamson -- Mischievous rivers and evil shoals : the English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime / Rohan D'Souza -- The Rafflesia in the natural and imperial imagination of the East India Company in Southeast Asia / Timothy P. Barnard -- "A proper set of views" : the British East India Company and the eighteenth-century visualization of South-East Asia / Geoff Quilley -- Unlikely partners : Malay-Indonesian medicine and European plant science / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells -- Plants, animals and environmental transformation : Indian-New Zealand biological and landscape connections, 1830s-1890s / James Beattie -- St Helena as a microcosm of the East India Company World / A.T. Grove -- Afterword / Vinita Damodaran.
520			_a"The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed to and recorded environmental change during the first era of globalization. From the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, to peninsula India and outposts in South and Southeast Asia, the Company presence profoundly altered the environment by introducing plants and animals, felling forests, and redirecting rivers. The threats of famine and disease encouraged experiments with agriculture and the recording of the virtues of medicinal plants. The EIC records of the weather, the soils, and the flora provide modern climate scientists with invaluable data. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - use the lens of the Company to illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857. "--
650		0	_aImperialism _xEnvironmental aspects _99736
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism _xHistory _93990
650		0	_aHuman ecology _xColonies _99737
650		0	_aNatural history _94332
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. _94171
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. _99738
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. _99739
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. _99740
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Environmental Science. _92871
700	1		_aDamodaran, Vinita, _99741
700	1		_aWinterbottom, Anna, _99742
700	1		_aLester, Alan, _99743
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