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"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, to peninsula India and outposts in South and Southeast Asia, 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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Sources, History, Imperialism, Environmentalism, Human ecology, Colonies, Natural history, Archives, Commerce, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, East India Company, East india company, Great britain, commerce, Great britain, colonies, history, sourcesPlaces
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The East India Company and the natural world
2015, Palgrave Macmillan
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East India Company and the Natural World
2014, Palgrave Macmillan
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1322577048 9781322577043
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-284) and index.
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