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Beginning in India in 1855, the (British) empire forestry movement developed huge forest reservations into revenue-producing public trusts, which protected the ecosystems they encompassed. By 1900 they covered over 10% of the earth's land surface. A new class of imperial foresters came into existence, who perceived the dangers of deforestation and whose ecological vision was the precursor of modern environmentalism. This is the first global study of the movement and its legacy.
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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The great interference; 3. Empire forestry and British India; 4. Environmental innovation in British India; 5. Empire forestry and the colonies; 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism; 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry; Bibliography; Index.
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Gregory A. Barton is Professor of British, Colonial and Environmental history at the University of Redlands, California.