Environmentalism and civilizational development in the colonial British histories of the Indian Archipelago (1783-1820)

Title: Environmentalism and civilizational development in the colonial British histories of the Indian Archipelago (1783-1820)
Creator: Tsao, Tiffany
Relation: Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 74, Issue 3, p. 449-471
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2013.0027
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: This article argues that the British Histories of the Indian Archipelago written by William Marsden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd can be read as documents advocating better care and protection of the natural environment in the region. Extant scholarship has tended to discourage such a reading, although the writers express many beliefs and sentiments that suggest their ascription to what have been identified as early environmentalist views. The environmentalism of the Histories, however, rests on the belief that human cultivation was necessary for nature’s well being—a belief now seen as antithetical to the values of modern-day environmentalism.
Subject: environmentalism; nature; natural environment; Brundtland Report; colonial; Indian Archipelago; Malay Archipelago; Thomas Stamford Raffles; William Marsden; John Crawfurd
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067303
Identifier: uon:18360
Identifier: ISSN:1086-3222
Language: eng
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