This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the em...(展开全部)

This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the em...(展开全部)

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Eden...(展开全部)

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, ...(展开全部)

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacemen...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德·克罗斯比，美国得克萨斯州大学奥斯汀分校美洲研究、历史和地理专业的荣誉退休教授。他的著作还包括《美国被遗忘的传染病：1918年流感》（第2版，剑桥，2003年）、《投火：历史上的抛掷技术》（剑桥，2002年）和《真实的测量：量化与西方社会，1250-1600年》（剑桥，1997年）。其中《真实的测量：量化与西方社会》一书曾入选《洛杉矶时报》1997年度100本最重要的书。《生态帝国主义》荣获“美国大学优等生荣誉学会”1987年度“拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生”奖。

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacemen...(展开全部)

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacemen...(展开全部)

This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining 'imperialism' are considered alongside various analytical approaches to the term. In examining the contr...(展开全部)

作者简介 拉姆齐•缪尔（Ramsay Muir ，1872—1941），英国著名历史学家，自由党派政治家、思想家，提倡相互依赖的国际关系，一生著述颇丰，代表作有《帝国之道：欧洲扩张400年》《英帝国诸邦史》《政治与进步》等。 译者简介 许磊，安徽大学外语学院教师，博士，主要从事文学翻译实践与研究。代表译作有《情不可挡》《巴尔卡尼亚浴室》《元散曲英译》等。 傅悦，安徽大学外语学院教师，博士，主要从事文学翻译实践与研究。代表译作有《男孩特工全书》《元散曲英译》等。 万世长，安徽大学外语学院教师，主要从事专门用途英语翻译实践与研究。代表译作包括《空战的历史》《罗马尼亚简史》《元散曲英译》等。