Andrea Duffy

Broschiertes Buch

The Nature of Empire

Modern Imperialism and the Roots of the Anthropocene

Beschreibung

The Nature of Empire exposes the central role of modern imperialism in the development of contemporary environmentalism and environmental science. It builds this case through an investigation of five major modern empires: Britain, France, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan.

Autor

Andrea Duffy, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University. Her research examines human-environmental relations around the world in the modern era, with an emphasis on imperialism and colonial contexts, cross-cultural connections, and the role of climate change. She is the author of Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (2019), winner of the Weyerhaeuser Book Award.

Produktdetails

• Themes in Environmental History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780367760151
• ISBN-10: 0367760150
• Artikelnr.: 73874910