Description: Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire 1, Hardcover by Anker, Peder, ISBN 0674005953, ISBN-13 9780674005952, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This history of ecology begins with Eugenius Warming's work on ecology in 1895 and ends with the formation of the UN in 1945, a period in which ecology flourished in the Empire. Anker (philosophy, U. of Oslo) proceeds in chronological order showing ecology expanding out of botany into the study of forests, animals, and finally humans. He also examines two patronage systems, one based in the south Empire which funded the South African botanist and political figure Jan Christian Smuts, and the other, based in the north Empire, which centered on George Tansley. Smuts saw ecology as a system to control material and human resources throughout the Empire while Tansley conceived of a holistic, idealistic ecology that he thought would solve the empire's environmental, social, and racial problems. This fascinating study, a necessary book in the history of ecology, won the History of Science Society's Forum for History of Human Sciences Prize. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire 1895
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Imperial Ecology : Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Life Sciences / Ecology, Rhetoric, History
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.7 in
Author: Peder Anker
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
