Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 8
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"Prehistory of Southern African Forestry: From Vegetable Garden to Tree Plantation"
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
"Toiling in Paradise: Knowledge Acquisition in the Context of Colonial Agriculture in Brazil's Atlantic Forest"
Four centuries of colonial extraction lead to severe ecological degradation of the forests and soils of the Atlantic region of Brazil. This article discusses the management of soil fertility and the relationship between agricultural practices and forest stands based on agricultural manuals published in Brazil over a period of more than two centuries.
Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Malnutrition: The Making of the Assam Tea Plantations
After traders from East India Company discovered Assam’s wild tea plants in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the commodification of this resource in the eastern border of Bengal radically transformed the ecological condition of the region.
The Greater Caribbean: From Plantations to Tourism
Traces the changes in the economy and land use in the Greater Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
The Eighteenth-Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
"Controlling Nature and Transforming Landscapes in the Early Modern Caribbean"
Under the European colonial powers, agricultural methods and techniques, along with well-organized routines in sugar production, were developed on the Caribbean islands with a view to managing sugar plantations as efficiently as possible. The results were in many cases deforestation, impoverished soils, and erosion.
"Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia"
Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Kew Gardens
Princess Augusta and Lord Bute establish the first botanic garden at Kew.
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