Tropical Nature

Tropical Nature

Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

Blanc, Guillaume; Guerin, Mathieu; Quenet, Gregory

Berghahn Books

03/2025

328

Dura

9781805398912

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Protecting Nature in Africa and Asia. Towards a Small-Scale Global History

Guillaume Blanc



Chapter 1. Laissez-Faire Conservation. Nature Protection in Colonial Vietnam

Pamela McElwee



Chapter 2. Setting up a Wildlife Department. Kenyan Expertise in Malaya

Mathieu Guerin



Chapter 3. Imperial Forests and Nature Reserves in Singapore, 1883-1959

Timothy P. Barnard



Chapter 4. Rambouillet, Agricultural Stations, and French Colonial Africa. Conserving and Improving Nature (1900-1930)

Raphael Devred



Chapter 5. Missing Conservation? On the Puzzling Dearth of Nature Conservation in Mandate Syria and Lebanon

Diana K. Davis



Chapter 6. Between Empire and Development. The Ubiquitous Life and Career of Arthur Hugh Bunting

Joseph M. Hodge



Chapter 7. The Adamsons, Born Free, and the Late Colonial Era. Images That Helped to Change the Animal World

William Beinart



Chapter 8.Conservation in the Days of Independence. the Case of the Seychelles, 1968-1974

Gregory Quenet



Chapter 9. Tracking Wildebeests. the Technological Mediation of Spaces for Humans and Wildlife in the Serengeti since 1950

Simone Schleper



Chapter 10. Conserving Nature in Mozambique. Relaying Conservation Practices and Imaginaries since Colonial Days

Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo



Chapter 11. Catfights and Crocodile Tears. Conflict, Charismatic Species, and Nature Professionals in India's Conservation History

Meera Anna Oommen



Chapter 12. Representing Space to Structure Time. Tropical Deforestation Fronts in the Light of Human-Territory Relations

Johan Oszwald



Conclusion: Studying Nature, Networks, and Power. What Next?

Guillaume Blanc



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Colonial History, Environmental Studies (General), History: 20th Century to Present