With my three co-editors and fabulous contributors we worked to pull together studies of conservation from around the world and think historically about similarities and differences. This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature.
The conference that gave birth to the volume was generously sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center. |
Table of Contents
Introduction 1.The Export of the American National Park Idea in an Age of Empire: The Philippines, 1898 1940 Ian Tyrrell 2.Protecting Patagonia: Science, Conservation and the Pre-History of the Nature State on a South American Frontier, 1903-1934 Emily Wakild 3.Another way to preserve: hunting bans, biosecurity, and the brown bear in Italy, 1930-1960 Wilko Graf von Hardenberg |
4. Conservation Politics in the Madras Presidency: Maintaining the Lord Wenlock Downs of the Nilgiris Grasslands, South India, as a National Park,1930-1950
Siddhartha Krishnan 5.Negotiating the Nature State Beyond the Parks: Conservation in 20th Century North-Central Namibia Emmanuel Kreike 6. Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the Nature State in post-war Britain. Matthew Kelly |
7. Behind the Scenes and Out in the Open: Making Colombian National Parks in the 1960s and 70s
Claudia Leal 8. Ordering the Borderland:Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s Frederico Freitas 9. Discovering China’s Tropical Rainforests: Shifting Approaches to People and Nature in the late Twentieth Century Michael Hathaway 10. Nature, State, and Conservation in the Danube Delta: Turning Fishermen into Outlaws Stefan Dorondel and Veronica Mitroi |