The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore 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 relation
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Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Editors: Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex, UK Rohan D’Souza, Shiv Nadar University, India Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge, UK James Beattie, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Editorial Board Members: Prof. Mark Elvin, ANU, Environmental historian of China Prof. Heather Goodall, Sydney Institute of Technology, Environmental historian of Australia Dr Edward Melillo, Amherst College, Environmental historian, USA Dr Alan Mikhail, Yale, Environmental history of the Middle East Prof. José Augusto Pádua, Federal University of Rio, Environmental historian of Latin America Dr Kate Showers, University of Sussex, Environmental historian of Africa Prof. Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia, Environmental historian, Canada Dr Robert Peckham, Hong Kong University, Environmental history/health history, world history, Hong Kong The widespread perception of a global environmental crisis has stimulated the burgeoning interest in environmental studies. This has encouraged a wide range of scholars, including historians, to place the environment at the heart of their analytical and conceptual explorations. As a result, the understanding of the history of human interactions with all parts of the cultivated and non-cultivated surface of the earth and with living organisms and other physical phenomena is increasingly seen as an essential aspect both of historical scholarship and in adjacent fields, such as the history of science, anthropology, geography and sociology. Environmental history can be of considerable assistance in efforts to comprehend the traumatic environmental difficulties facing us today, while making us reconsider the bounds of possibility open to humans over time and space in their interaction with different environments. This series explores these interactions in studies that together touch on all parts of the globe and all manner of environments including the built environment. Books in the series will come from a wide range of fields of scholarship, from the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The series particularly encourages interdisciplinary projects that emphasize historical engagement with science and other fields of study. Titles in the Series include: Simon Pooley BURNING TABLE MOUNTAIN An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
10.1057/9781137427274 - The East India Company and the Natural World, Edited by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester
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