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Palgrave Macmillan The East India Company and The Natural World by Vinita Damodaran Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.