Five emus to the king of Siam: environment and empire
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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.