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The East India Company and the natural world

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:50 authored by Vinita DamodaranVinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan LesterAlan Lester
The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company, on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed to and recorded environmental change during the first era of globalization. From the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, and as far off as New Zealand, the Company presence profoundly altered the environment by introducing plants and animals, felling forests, and redirecting rivers. The threats of famine and disease encouraged experiments with agriculture and the recording of the virtues of medicinal plants. The EIC records of the weather, the soils, and the flora provide modern climate scientists with invaluable data. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - use the lens of the Company to illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Pages

297.0

Place of publication

Houndsmills

ISBN

9781137427267

Series

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

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  • History Publications

Notes

his is an edited book edited by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan Lester

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Alan Lester

Legacy Posted Date

2014-12-03

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