Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of t

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

Examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world.

19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna an