SULJE VALIKKO

Englanninkielisten kirjojen poikkeusaikata... LUE LISÄÄ

avaa valikko

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
34,40 €
University of Washington Press
Sivumäärä: 268 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2023, 07.07.2023 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes

The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400–1900 compares the practices of the Mughal and British Empires to demonstrate how their fluctuating capacity for domination was imbricated in the formation of environmental knowledge itself.

The establishment of imperial control transforms local knowledge of the world into the aggregated information that reproduces centralized power over it. That is the political ecology that reshapes entire biomes. Animals and plants are translocated; human communities are displaced or destroyed. Some species proliferate; others disappear. But these state projects are overlaid upon the many local and regional geographies made by sacred cosmologies and local sites, pilgrimage routes and river fords, hot springs and fluctuating aquifers, hunting ranges and nesting grounds, notable trees and striking rocks.

Guha uncovers these ecological histories by scrutinizing little-used archival sources. His historically based political ecology demonstrates how the biomes of a vast subcontinent were changed by struggles to make and to resist empire.

Series edited by: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Foreword by: K. Sivaramakrishnan

Tuotetta lisätty
ostoskoriin kpl
Siirry koriin
LISÄÄ OSTOSKORIIN
Tilaustuote | Arvioimme, että tuote lähetetään meiltä noin 3-4 viikossa
Myymäläsaatavuus
Helsinki
Tapiola
Turku
Tampere
Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900zoom
Näytä kaikki tuotetiedot
ISBN:
9780295751498
Sisäänkirjautuminen
Kirjaudu sisään
Rekisteröityminen
Oma tili
Omat tiedot
Omat tilaukset
Omat laskut
Lisätietoja
Asiakaspalvelu
Tietoa verkkokaupasta
Toimitusehdot
Tietosuojaseloste