Ecological Imperialism
by Alfred Crosby
What he does is show how environments influenced the relations between civilisations, especially between Europe and the new world
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“Crosby is one of the truly foundational figures in environmental history, and one of the few who comfortably operates on a global scale. Crosby’s book also has a very vigorous and much-disputed argument to it, to wit: that plants, animals, and pathogens were a powerful ecological component in that subset of European imperialism that historians now call ‘settler colonialism.’” Read more...
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