RossECOLOGY & POWER IN AGE OF EMPIRE C
Corey Ross is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and the author of several books on the history of mass media and popular culture, heritage and ancestral pasts, and everyday life under state socialism, with a particular focus on Germany. Since arriving at Birmingham in 1998, he has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, a J. Walter Thompson Fellowship at Duke University, a guest professorship at the Université Paris-II, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. His primary research interests are in global environmental history, modern imperialism, and modern European social and cultural history.
* Introduction: Ecology, Power, and Imperialism
* PART I: A World of Goods: The Ecology of Colonial Extraction
* 1: The Ecology of Cotton: Environment, Labour, and Empire
* 2: Bittersweet Harvest: The Colonial Cocoa Boom and the Tropical
Forest Frontier
* 3: Colonialism, Rubber, and the Rainforest
* 4: Subterranean Frontier: Tin Mining, Empire, and Environment in
Southeast Asia
* 5: Peripheral Centres: Copper Mining and Colonized Environments in
Central Africa
* 6: Oil, Empire, and Environment
* PART II: Conservation, Improvement, and Environmental Management in
the Colonies
* 7: Tropical Nature in Trust: The Politics of Colonial Conservation
* 8: Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies
* 9: Cultivating the Colonies: Agriculture, Development, and
Environment
* PART III: Acceleration, Decline, and Aftermath
* 10: Progress and Hubris: The Political Ecology of Late Colonial
Development
* 11: Beyond Colonialism: Tropical Environments and the Legacies of
Empire
* Conclusion
