Damodaran, Vinita
The East India Company and the Natural World
1. Introduction: New Imperial and Environmental Histories of the Indian Ocean
Alan Lester
2. Botanical Explorations and the East India Company: Revisiting ‘Plant Colonialism’
Deepak Kumar
3. Medicine and Botany in the Making of Madras, 1680–1720
Anna Winterbottom
4. Robert Wight and his European Botanical Collaborators
H. J. Noltie
5. The East India Company, Famine and Ecological Conditions in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Vinita Damodaran
6. Colonial Private Diaries and their Potential for Reconstructing Historical Climate in Bombay, 1799–1828
George Adamson
7. Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals: The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime
Rohan D’Souza
8. The
Timothy P. Barnard
9. ‘A proper set of views’: The British East India Company and the Eighteenth-Century Visualization of South-East Asia
Geoff Quilley
10. Unlikely Partners: Malay-Indonesian Medicine and European Plant Science
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
11. Plants, Animals and Environmental Transformation: Indian-New Zealand Biological and Landscape Connections, 1830s–1890s
James Beattie
12. St Helena as a Microcosm of the East India Company World
A. T. Grove
13. Afterword
Vinita Damodaran
Keywords: Geography, Environmental Geography, History of Science, History, general, Imperialism and Colonialism, Human Geography, Environment, general
- Editor
- Damodaran, Vinita
- Lester, Alan
- Winterbottom, Anna
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
- Page amount
- 316 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137427274
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-49109-4