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Modernizing nature [electronic resource] : forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950 / S. Ravi Rajan.
Series: Oxford historical monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xv, 286 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191707827 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Forests and forestry -- Great Britain -- Colonies | Forests and forestry -- History -- 19th century | Forests and forestry -- History -- 20th century | Environmental management -- Great Britain -- Colonies | Environmental management -- History -- 19th century | Environmental management -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199277964DDC classification: 634.909171241 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Professor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalisation and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial framework of environmental management. He disagress with historigraphical and social scientific approaches arguing that it had cognitive, ideological and interventionalist traditions.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Professor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalisation and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial framework of environmental management. He disagress with historigraphical and social scientific approaches arguing that it had cognitive, ideological and interventionalist traditions.
Description based on print version record.