Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.
Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.
The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.
The author attempts to reframe the classical distinction in conservation biology between native and invasive species by referring to migration and settlement of nonhuman beings as diasporas. She uses the introduction of Canadian beavers in Chilean Tierra del Fuego in 1947 as a case study.
Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.