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

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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 : Clarendon, 2006.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Forests and forestry > Great Britain > Colonies.
Forests and forestry > History > 19th century.
Forests and forestry > History > 20th century.
Environmental management > Great Britain > Colonies.
Environmental management > History > 19th century.
Environmental management > History > 20th century.
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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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 286 p.) : ill.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191707827 (ebook) :

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