Biocultural Empire New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2024
• Series: Empire’s Other Histories
• Subjects: biocultural; biomes; British Empire; Colonialism and imperialism; colony; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ethnic studies; fauna; History; History and Archaeology; History: specific events and topics; imperial histories; interaction; interspecies; JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies; JBSL11 Indigenous peoples; metropole; nature; nonhuman world; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; The environment

Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the effect of biocultural, chemical and cultural...