Five emus to the king of Siam : : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures, 92
• TeilnehmendeR: Tiffin, Helen.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ‘human’, ‘savage’, ‘civilised’, ‘natural’, ‘progressive’, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale
• Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein
• Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma
• Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert
• Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann
• “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair
• The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson
• The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon
• Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston
• Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin
• “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien
• Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell
• Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson
• “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock
• Contributors
• Index.