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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 is a 1986 book by environmental historian Alfred W. Crosby. The book builds on Crosby's earlier study, The Columbian Exchange , in which he described the complex global transfer of organisms that accompanied European colonial endeavors.
Sharon Kirsch, What Species of Creatures: Animal Relations From the New World. New Star Books: 2008. ISBN 978-1554200405. Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0300119930. Alan Taylor, American Colonies (Penguin Books: 2002), 280-300; Stephanie True Peters, Epidemic!
Entomophagy (/ ˌ ɛ n t ə ˈ m ɒ f ə dʒ i /, from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects. An alternative term is insectivory. [1] [2] Terms for organisms that practice entomophagy are entomophage and insectivore.
The scientific term used in anthropology, cultural studies, biology and medicine is anthropo-entomophagy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Anthropo-entomophagy does not include the eating of arthropods other than insects such as arachnids and myriapods , which is defined as arachnophagy .
A festschrift volume, The British Empire and the natural world: environmental encounters in South Asia, edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damadaran, and Rohan D'Souza, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. The volume recognises Grove's substantial contribution to environmental history before his accident.
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Ultra-imperialism, or super-imperialism, [was] what Hobson, thirteen years earlier, [had] described as inter-imperialism. Except for coining a new and clever catch-word, replacing one Latin prefix by another, the only progress [that] Kautsky has made, in the sphere of 'scientific' thought, is that he gave out, as Marxism , what Hobson, in ...
In 1999, Deepak Lal used the term with the same meaning in his book Green Imperialism: A Prescription for Misery and War in the World's Poorest Countries. [2] Nonetheless, the same term is used differently in Richard Grove's 1995 book Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600–1860. [3]