Imperial ecology: environmental order in the british empire, 1895-1945
Auteur :
Anker, Peder
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674005952
Date de publication :
25 janv. 2002
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
703 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.