Modern forests : statemaking and environmental change in colonial Eastern India
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書誌事項
Modern forests : statemaking and environmental change in colonial Eastern India
Stanford University Press, 1999
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- タイトル別名
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Statemaking and environmental change in colonial Eastern India
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
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注記
"Originating publisher: Oxford University Press"--T.p. verso
"This book has been prepared from the first volume of a two-volume historical and ethnographic study on statemaking and forest management in Bengal, completed as a PhD dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Yale University"--Pref. (p. [xv])
Size of pbk., ISBN:9780804745567: 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-323) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780804735636
内容説明
Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a variety of imperial and local interests.
The author examines the regionally varied conditions that generated widely different kinds of forest management systems, and the ways in which certain ideas and forces became dominant at various times. Through this emphasis on regional socio-political processes and ecologies, the author offers a new way to write environmental history. Instead of making a sharp distinction between third-world and first-world experiences in forest management, the book suggests a potential for cross-continental comparative studies through regional analyses.
The book also offers an approach to historical anthropology that does not make apolitical separations between foreign and indigenous views of the world of nature, insisting instead that different cultural repertoires for discerning the natural, and using it, can be fashioned out of shared concerns within and across social groups. The politics of such cultural construction, the book argues, must be studied through institutional histories and ethnographies of statemaking. In conclusion, the author offers a genealogy of development as it can be traced from forest conservation in colonial eastern India.
目次
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- 1. Statemaking and environmental change
- Part I. Intimations of a Governmental Rationality at the Margins of Empire: 2. British entry into the jungle Mahals
- 3. Geographies of empire: the transition
- 4. Visibility, estimation, and laying down
- Part II. Formal Structure of Forest Management: 5. Varied regimes of restriction and lumbering
- 6. Forests in a regional Agrarian economy
- 7. Nature's science: fire and forest regeneration
- 8. Science and conservation: hybrid
- 9. Conclusion
- Note on primary sources
- Select bibliography
- Index.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780804745567
内容説明
Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a variety of imperial and local interests.
The author examines the regionally varied conditions that generated widely different kinds of forest management systems, and the ways in which certain ideas and forces became dominant at various times. Through this emphasis on regional socio-political processes and ecologies, the author offers a new way to write environmental history. Instead of making a sharp distinction between third-world and first-world experiences in forest management, the book suggests a potential for cross-continental comparative studies through regional analyses.
The book also offers an approach to historical anthropology that does not make apolitical separations between foreign and indigenous views of the world of nature, insisting instead that different cultural repertoires for discerning the natural, and using it, can be fashioned out of shared concerns within and across social groups. The politics of such cultural construction, the book argues, must be studied through institutional histories and ethnographies of statemaking. In conclusion, the author offers a genealogy of development as it can be traced from forest conservation in colonial eastern India.
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