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Environment and Empire

Hardcover • 2007 • English

Environment and Empire

By William Beinart

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European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to ru...Show more

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9780199260317

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Environment and Empire

Format

Hardcover

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