Science, Environment and Empire History: Comparative Perspectives from Forests in Colonial India

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Abstract Books reviewed in this essay: Arun Agrawal Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. (New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century) Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2005. $22.95. xvi + 325pp. Peder Anker Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2001. $67.00. vii + 343pp. David Arnold The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856. (Culture, Place, and Nature) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2006. $50.00. xiv + 298pp. Gregory A. Barton Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, 34) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. $65.00. xiii + 192pp. Richard Drayton Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World New Haven: Yale University Press. 2000. $50.00. xxi + 346pp. S. Ravi Rajan Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development, 1800-1950 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. $105.00. xv + 286pp.

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