Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
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A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
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.
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.