21H.968J / STS.415J Nature, Environment, and Empire, Spring 2005

Ritvo, Harriet

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Ritvo, Harriet

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Nature, Environment, and Empire

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Abstract

This course is an exploration of the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and concrete exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Date issued

2005-06

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66923

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21H.968J-Spring2005

local: 21H.968J

local: STS.415J

local: IMSCP-MD5-52321780db0f2c648ccd93828044a804

Keywords

History, empire, environment, nature, natural history, domestic, exotic, Europeans, Americans, eighteenth, nineteenth centuries, animals, 21H.968J, 21H.968, STS.415J, STS.415, Natural history

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