Green Imperialism. Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860, Paperback

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking. For the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Richard H. (Australian National University, Canberra) Grove
• Illustration(s): 1 Tables, unspecified; 5 Maps; 34 Halftones, unspecified; 23 Line drawings, unspecified
• Number of pages: 560
• Collection: Studies in Environment and History
• Publication date: 1996
• Dimensions: 157 x 232 x 40
• Cover type: Paperback / softback