Richard Grove
British historian (1955–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism" redirects here. For interventional Green politics, see Green Imperialism. For the 1986 book by Alfred W. Crosby, see Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900.
Richard Hugh Grove (21 July 1955 – 25 June 2020) was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field. His prizewinning book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600–1860 (1995), was considered a pioneering account of colonial environmental impacts and an origin for early western ideas on environmentalism.[2]
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Richard H. Grove | |
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Born | 21 July 1955 (1955-07-21) |
Died | 25 June 2020(2020-06-25) (aged 64) |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Green Imperialism (1995) |
Spouse | Vinita Damodaran |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Environmental history |
Institutions | Australian National University, University of Sussex |
Thesis | Conservation and colonial expansion: a study of the evolution of environmental attitudes and conservation policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in India, 1660–1860 (1988) |
Website | www |
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