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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta - Studies in Environment and History Bhattacharyya, Debjani (Drexel University, Philadelphia)
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta - Studies in Environment and History
Bhattacharyya, Debjani (Drexel University, Philadelphia)
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history, which spans from 1760 to 1920, demonstrates how colonial property law and hydraulic engineering transformed the ecology of the Bengal delta to drain Calcutta.
300 pages, 4 b/w illus. 6 maps
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros) |
| Publicado | 24 de mayo de 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781108425742 |
| Editores | Cambridge University Press |
| Páginas | 254 |
| Dimensiones | 235 × 160 × 20 mm · 564 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |