Bøker av Timothy P. Barnard

The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals.

Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has been important as a park, a scientific institution, and as an economic testing ground and launchpad for tropical plantation agriculture. Setting the Singapore gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and botanic gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony.