Cities of Fire and Smoke
Oliver Cussen: Enlightenment Environmentalism, 2 March 2023
Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas
by Pierre Charbonnier, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 327 pp., £19.99, July 2021,978 1 5095 4372 4 Show More
by Pierre Charbonnier, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 327 pp., £19.99, July 2021,
“... in the plantation economies of the Caribbean and the Mascarene islands. Functionaries like Pierre Poivre in Mauritius and Alexander Anderson in Saint Vincent combined Enlightenment ideas about agronomy and plant chemistry with a proto-Romantic appreciation of nature, and, above all, a sensitivity to the impact of capitalist agriculture on tropical ... ”
