Environment and Empire - Beinart, William (Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford) a Hughes, Lotte (Lecturer in African Arts and Cultures, The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University)

Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this fascinating new study examines a key global historical process of the last 500 years.