The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power.
Christina Folke Ax is at the University of Iceland on a
postdoctoral project. She has published articles in the
Scandinavian Journal of History and in Nordic Perspectives on
Encountering Foreignness. Niels Brimnes is an associate professor
of history at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is the author of
Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in
Early Colonial South India. Niklas Thode Jensen is a Marie Curie
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History and Civilization
at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His
forthcoming book is titled For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves,
Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848. Karen
Oslund is an assistant professor of world history at Towson
University in Maryland. Her publications include Iceland Imagined:
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
and a coedited volume with David L. Hoyt, The Study of Language and
the Politics of Community in Global Context,1740-1940.
“Scholars of environmental history would benefit from reading this
lucidly written book, especially because it discusses diverse cases
and has useful references to vernacular sources.”
*Technology and Culture*
“A coherent and excellent volume on the environmental history of
the arable and non-arable colonial world…this book is a valuable
and important addition to global and comparative world
environmental history.”
*European History Quarterly*
“Cultivating the Colonies embarks on an ambitious task,
investigating the nuts and bolts of colonial environmental
governance and understanding how that study can illuminate the
modern complexities in post-independence states. The editors and
authors have done well not to shy away from the complexity of their
task. Rather than attempting to address every nuance of colonial
history, Cultivating the Colonies provides well defined case
studies that will serve as examples for future study and
investigation of colonial management of nature and people.”
*Middle Ground Journal*
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