- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Description
- Book — xix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Summary
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- Preface
- Anna Winterbottom Introduction: New Imperial and Environmental Histories of the Indian Ocean
- Alan Lester 1. Botanical Explorations and the East India Company: Revisiting Plant Colonialism
- Deepak Kumar 2. Botanical and Medical Networks of Madras, 1680-1720
- Anna Winterbottom 3. Robert Wright and his European Collaborators
- Henry Noltie 4. The East India Company, Famine and Ecological Conditions in Eighteenth Century Bengal
- Vinita Damodaran 5. The Climate of Bombay from 1799-1828 from Four Colonial Weather Diaries
- George Adamson 6. Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals: The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime
- Rohan D'Souza 7. The Rafflesia in the Natural and Imperial Imagination of the East India Company in Southeast Asia
- Timothy P. Barnard 8. 'A proper set of views': The British East India Company and the Visualization of South-East Asia in the Late Eighteenth Century
- Geoff Quilley 9. Malay-Indonesian Materia Medica and Trans-Cultural Encounters
- Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells 10. "Units...of our mighty Indian Empire': New Zealand/Indian Biological and Landscape Exchanges, 1830s-1890s'
- James Beattie 11. St Helena as a Microcosm of the East India Company World
- Dick Grove Afterword
- Vinita Damodaran Select Bibliography.
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Science Library (Li and Ma)
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DS465 .E175 2015 | Unknown |