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Empire forestry and the origins of environmentalism / Gregory Allen Barton.

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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's pioneering study is amongst the first to look at the origins of environmentalism in gl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Barton, Greg (Gregory Allen)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 34.
Subjects:
Forests and forestry > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Forest management > History.
Environmentalism > History.
Forest conservation > India > History > 19th century.
Forest conservation > History > 19th century.
Forest conservation > History > 20th century.
Green movement > History.
Environmentalism
Forest management
Great Britain
History
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The great interference
  • 3. Empire forestry and British India
  • 4. Environmental innovation in British India
  • 5. Empire forestry and the colonies
  • 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism.
  • 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry.

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