{"product_id":"ecology-and-empire-environmental-history-of-settler-societies-9780295997704","title":"Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Ecology' and 'Empire' forged a historical partnership of great power - and one which, particularly in the last five hundred years, radically changed human and natural history across the globe. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book scrutinizes European expansion from the perspectives of the so-called colonized 'peripheries', the settler societies. It begins with Australia as a prism through which to consider the relations between settlers and their lands, but moves well beyond this, to a range of lands of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt uses their distinctive ecologies and histories to shed new light on both the imperial and the settler environmental experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEcology and Empire also explores the way in which the science of ecology itself was an artifact of empire, thereby drawing together the fields of imperial history and the history of science. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book grew out of work undertaken at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295997704\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39952720855155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":182.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2c4cad90-a08e-42a2-b473-f398a1a18088.jpg?v=1648564343","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/ecology-and-empire-environmental-history-of-settler-societies-9780295997704","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}