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Nature and the orient : the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia / edited by Richard H. Grove, Vinita Damodaran, Satpal Sangwan.

Grove, Richard (Richard H.) (Added Author). Damodaran, Vinita. (Added Author). Sangwan, Satpal, 1956- (Added Author).

Summary:

Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings in settlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India's tragic story of India's tribal communities.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0195638964
  • ISBN: 9780195638967
  • Physical Description: xx, 1036 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Contributed articles.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 983-1015) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Richard Grove, Vinita Damodaran and Satpal Sangwan -- pt. 1. Constructing Nature and Changing the Landscape 10,000 BC-AD 1980. I. The Pre-colonial Period. 1. Early Man and Environment in South Asia 10,000 BC-AD 500 / Bridget Allchin. 2. Deforestation in Pre- and Protohistoric South Asia / George Erdosy. 3. Early Ecological Knowledge of India from Alexander and Aristotle to Aelian / J. Donald Hughes. 4. The Creation and Expansion of Settlements and Management of Hydraulic Resources in Ancient India / Ranabir Chakravarti. 5. Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid. 6. Earth, Rice, Water: 'Reading the Landscape' as a Record of the History of Satingpra, South Thailand / Janice Stargardt.

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Subject:
South Asia > Environmental conditions > History.
Southeast Asia > Environmental conditions > History.
Forest management > India > History.
India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.
Ecology.
India.
South Asia.
Southeast Asia.
Genre:
History.

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