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Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860. Studies in Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 540. ISBN 0-521-40385-5. £45.00, $64.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Mark Harrison
Affiliation:
Sheffield Hallam University

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1996

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1 Anderson, David and Grove, Richard (eds.), Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice, Cambridge, 1987.Google Scholar

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4 Said, Edward, Orientalism, Harmondsworth, 1985Google Scholar. See also Cohn, Bernard S., ‘The command of language and the language of command’, in Subaltern Studies IV: Writings on South Asian History and Society (ed. Guha, R.), Oxford, 1985, 276329Google Scholar; Arnold, David, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, Berkeley, 1993.Google Scholar

5 Grove, Richard, ‘Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance: towards a global synthesis’, in Imperialism and the Natural World (ed. Mackenzie, J. M.), Manchester, 1990, 1550.Google Scholar