Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies

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Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Getting Our Hands Dirty Part 1: Perceiving the Colonial Environment 1: The Prospective Colonist and Strange Environments 2: Carved Out of Nature 3: The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science in the Spanish and American Philippines 4: Aerial Photography and Colonial Discourse on the Agricultural Crisis in Late-Colonial Indochina, 1930–1945 Part 2:Managing the Colonial Environment 5: Wetland Colonies 6: Colonization of the Russian North 7: Recasting Disease and Its Environment 8: Changing Times, Changing Palates Part 3: The Legacy of Colonialism 9: State Rationality, Development, and the Making of State Territory 10: Ecological Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute 11: Colonial Experts, Developmental and Environmental Doctrines, and the Legacies of Late British Colonialism Contributors Index