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Comparing apples, oranges, and cotton : environmental histories of the plantation / Frank Uekötter (ed.).

Title
Comparing apples, oranges, and cotton : environmental histories of the plantation / Frank Uekötter (ed.).
Publication
Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2014]

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Additional Authors
Uekötter, Frank, 1970-
Description
272 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Alternative Title
Environmental histories of the plantation
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Rise, Fall, and Permanence: Issues in the Environmental History of the Global Plantation / Frank Uekotter -- Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South / Mart A. Stewart -- Cotton's Metropolis: Memphis and Plantation Development in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1920 / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Ephemeral Plantations: The Rise and Fall of Liberian Coffee, 1870-1900 / Stuart McCook -- Between "Wild Tropics" and "Civilization": Guatemalan Coffee Plantations as Seen by German Immigrants / Christiane Berth -- Divide and Cultivate: Plantations, Militarism and Environment in Portuguese Timor, 1860-1975 / Chris Shepherd and Andrew McWilliam -- Pines, Pests and Fires: Large Scale Plantation Forestry in New Zealand, 1897-1955 / Michael Roche -- How Nature Works: Business, Ecology, and Rubber Plantations in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1939 / Michitake Aso -- Apple Orchards in Southern Brazil: An Environmental History / Jo Klanovicz -- Plantations and the Rise of a Society in Sao Tome and Principe / Marina Padrao Temudo.
ISBN
  • 9783593500287 (pbk.)
  • 9783593422961 (online) (canceled/invalid)
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library