| Verfasst von: | Guha, Sumit [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Ecologies of empire in South Asia, 1400-1900 |
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| Verf.angabe: | Sumit Guha |
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| Verlagsort: | Seattle |
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| Verlag: | University of Washington Press |
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| E-Jahr: | 2023 |
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| Jahr: | [2023] |
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| Umfang: | xvi, 243 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen, Karten |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Culture, place, and nature |
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| Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-295-75148-1 |
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| | 978-0-295-75149-8 |
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| Abstract: | "By focusing on the human gaze, or how people interpret their relationship with land, Sumit Guha traces the longue durée of the political ecology of empire in South Asia during the age of empires. This relationship is in most sharp relief when comparing the exploitative and extractive practices of the Mughal Empire and the industrial British Raj as these imperial regimes encountered a large and old agrarian society. While scholars of South Asia regularly dwell on the destructive nature of British policies in South Asia, Guha integrates the cultural turn in environmental studies with the complex imperial rivalries that defined South Asia from the fifteenth through the mid-twentieth century to demonstrate how land use is defined through matrices of competing geographic expertise, too often in service of distant courts and environmental degradation"-- |
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| | 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 |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303239353735313438317C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (g)Südasien / (s)Imperialismus / (s)Umwelt / (s)Landnutzung / (z)Geschichte 1400-1900 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Sach-SW: | Asian history |
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| | Asiatische Geschichte |
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| | Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 |
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| | Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 |
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| | HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia |
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| | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 |
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| | NATURE / Ecology |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
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| | Social impact of environmental issues |
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| | Soziale Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren |
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| Zeit-SW: | 15. Jahrhundert (1400 bis 1499 n. Chr.) |
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| | 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.) |
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| | 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.) |
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| | 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) |
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| | 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) |
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| | c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
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| | c 1500 to c 1600 |
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| | c 1600 to c 1700 |
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| | c 1700 to c 1800 |
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| | c 1800 to c 1900 |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1844852482 |
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Ecologies of empire in South Asia, 1400-1900 / Guha, Sumit [VerfasserIn]; [2023]
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