The East India Company and the natural world

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Full title: The East India Company and the natural world [electronic resource] / edited by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan Lester.
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Summary: This volume explores the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.
Language: English
Published: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Classmark: 508.54
Subjects:
East India Company > History > Sources.
East India Company > Archives.
Imperialism > Environmental aspects > Sources.
Environmentalism > History > Sources.
Human ecology > Great Britain > Colonies > Sources.
Natural history > Sources.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > Sources.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > Sources.
Series: Palgrave studies in world environmental history.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-284) and index.
ISBN: 9781137427274 (e-book)

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